The wise man reads both books and life itself.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India

The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.

In fact,I believe the reason why the Chinese failed to develop botany and zoology is that the Chinese scholar cannot stare coldly and unemotionally at a fish without immediately thinking of how it tastes in the mouth and wanting to eat it. The reason I don't trust Chinese surgeons is that I am afraid that when a Chinese surgeon cuts up my liver in search of a gall-stone, he may forget about the stone and put my liver in a frying pan.

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.