In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community

The Japanese are, to the highest degree, both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic and aesthetic, both insolent and polite, rigid and adaptable, submissive and resentful of being pushed around, loyal and treacherous, brave and timid, conservative and hospitable to new ways.

Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.

The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.

The trouble is not that we are never happy-it is that happiness is so episodical.

Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority.