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.

If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.

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

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

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.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Why should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed?