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.

A cocktail party is a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no interest in.

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.

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted

If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.

Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.