there's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind up to hunt its food in the light and air, and sends the other kind down into the earth to make the roots.

Love alone could waken love.

The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.

There was an old abbot in one temple and he said something of which I think often and it was this, that when men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.