It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.

India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development.

The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.

Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.

Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.

The sun exactly at noon is exactly [beginning to] go down. And a creature when he is born is exactly [beginning to] die.

It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be.

Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.

The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture.

And then like a song we'd forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole life.

Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.

The secret is to always let the other man have your way.

Makeup's just crazy, anyways. Native Americans used to wear it, and it did all right for them until, uh ... well, until you killed them all, I suppose.

Everytime people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.

Cultivate friendships. If you don't have time to cultivate all of them, plow under every fifth one and collect your bonus.

...if a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their similarity - all possible happenings, both past and to come.

Why should I fear? I am on a Royal Mission. I am in the service of the King of kings.

When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice.

That moon which the sky never saw even in dreams has risen again