Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.
Lin YutangNot until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India
Lin YutangA cocktail party is a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no interest in.
Lin YutangWe all have obligations and duties toward our fellow men. But it does seem curious enough that in modern neurotic society, men's energies are consumed in making a living and rarely in living itself. It takes a lot of courage for a man to declare, with clarity and simplicity, that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Lin YutangIndia was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as well as in philosophy, and that she inspired Boccaccio, Goethe, Herder, Schopenhauer, Emerson, and probably also old Aesop.
Lin Yutang