A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.

In fact,I believe the reason why the Chinese failed to develop botany and zoology is that the Chinese scholar cannot stare coldly and unemotionally at a fish without immediately thinking of how it tastes in the mouth and wanting to eat it. The reason I don't trust Chinese surgeons is that I am afraid that when a Chinese surgeon cuts up my liver in search of a gall-stone, he may forget about the stone and put my liver in a frying pan.

All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

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

He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer.

Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.

I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.