Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.

I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.

India 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.

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.

What threatens civilization today is not war, but the changing conception of life values entailed by certain political doctrines. Only by recapturing the dream of human freedom and restoring the importance of the common man's liberties can that undermining threat to modern civilization be averted

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.