After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors, great presidents, heroes who change the course of history - the happiest man is still the man of the middle class who has earned a slight means of economic independence, who has done a little, but just a little, for mankind and who is slightly distinguished in his community, but not too distinguished.

I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.

A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.

Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.

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

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

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