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

It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

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

It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.

In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.

True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst. Psychologically, I think it means a release of energy.