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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This place is alive, " Sunni said in wonder. "Things are moving. Inside a painting.

The earliest childhood memories are woven by shadows. And some of these shadows are woven from fire.

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

Terri and her mother arrived. She was obviously a dedicated stage mother because she was loaded down with camera equipment, looking like a Japanese tourist.

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it?

It's always good to go against your friends, especially when you come out victorious.

Only when your memories are more important to you than your goals are you old.

The element of harmony is super important.

The good he scorn'd Stalk'd off reluctant, like an ill-us'd ghost, Not to return; or if it did, its visits Like those of angels, short, and far between.

Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!