Foreign culture is as necessary to the spirit of a nation as is foreign commerce to its industries.

Knowledge is one of our direst needs. But it is insufficient on its own. If knowledge was stripped from true up-bringing, it would increase man's strength, but not his morals.

I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?

Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and analyze.

If I were capable of assisting someone, I would do it in a manner that would cause the person seeking assistance to work, so he assists himself.

Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.

My American walking shoes are new, and my Oriental eyes are old.