When one commits one's self to an airborne craft and the door is fastened against earth and home, there is no escape even by running away. The result is a strange sense of peace - desperate, perhaps, but peace.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.

In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

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

Hunger makes a thief of any man.