Han Suyin

“There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.”

“Love is a many-splendored thing.”

“We are all only larvae of the restless butterfly of ourselves. We are all imperfect, in process, one way or another.”

“Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself.”

“Peace is not a product of an intellectual exercise. It is an inner blossoming that pushes up irresistibly.”

“Mortality is the most romantic thing there is.”

“Age is not a matter of chronology, but of attitude.”

“class="highlight">Exploitation is not exclusively capitalist, but is basic to any system in which class divisions exist.”

“The human brain is the most complex mass of protoplasm on earth, perhaps in our galaxy.”

“Why should I be squeezed into a definition?”

“One has to be what one is, and I am a Eurasian.”

“I am a fugitive from the long night of European history.”