But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.

The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.

All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.

Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

In order to comprehend the beauty of a Japanese garden, it is necessary to understand - or at least to learn to understand - the beauty of stone.

No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before.

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.

To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

One thing is always wrong-always: to cause suffering in others for the purpose of gratifying one's own pleasures; that is everlastingly wrong.

Some cities are women and must be loved; others are men and can only be admired or bargained with

People really don't have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you. And just don't let that go to your head, whatever it is they give you.

Life is short. It's God's fault. Sorry.

When you find yourself in bed with an ugly woman, the best thing to do is close your eyes and get on with it

If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect

I believe Jesus Christ came for everybody. I don't think he came for Christians. The Bible says take this good news to the whole world.

For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a ruinous infection among men, that eats off the sprouts of the Eternal.

I didn't know what I was doing in New York.

The worst sin, the ultimate sin for me, in anything, is to be bored.

Generally a wise actor will be very careful about the person to whom he gives that power.