Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

There is a great probability that our loss of capacity for enjoying the positive joys of life is largely due to the decreased sensibility of our senses and our lack of full use of them. All human happiness is sensuous happiness.

We (the Chinese) eat food for its texture, the elastic or crisp effect it has on our teeth, as well as for fragrance, flavor and color.

A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.

Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.

An educated man is one who has the loves and hatreds together.