Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did."

". . . love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other."

"Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures."

"This is Malaya. Everything takes a long, a very long time, in Malaya. Things get done, occasionally, but more often they don't, and the more in a hurry you are, the quicker you break down."

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.