The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.

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.

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

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

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

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