People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.

It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid.

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break.

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.

It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

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.

A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.