By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also.

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

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

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.

Neckties strangle clear thinking.

I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.