Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.

Happiness has always seemed like a bluebird, and consists of moments.

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.

Art is both creation and recreation.

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

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