We (the Chinese) eat food for its texture, the elastic or crisp effect it has on our teeth, as well as for fragrance, flavor and color.

The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?

All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at another point in order to make room for others waiting below the river to come aboard.

On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic temperament which is bent on seeking a perfectly useless afternoon spent in a perfectly useless manner.

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

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