“Nothing is menial where there is love.”

“I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.”

“You are right,” he had said. “Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, ‘Know thy neighbor as thyself.” That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself. Madame, this is the meaning of the word love.”

“But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?”

“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up. ”

“Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.”

“Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old...- Wang Lung”