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

The only test of a soul's salvation is its inward happiness.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a living and forget to play!

Art is both creation and recreation.

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.

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