When we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop off people's heads.

All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

Reality - Dreams = Animal Being Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism) Dreams - Humor = Fanaticism Dreams + Humor = Fantasy Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom

A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.

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 is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?

We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.