The more you wish to be, the wiser you are; while the wish to have is apt to be foolish in proportion to its largeness.

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.

It's never just a game when you're winning.

But sometimes I've felt a little constrained by that idea of who I'm meant to be.

I was a mess when the movie [Into the Forest] ended and I had to say goodbye. It was one of the hardest endings.

If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve to death.

Those who betray me only do so once.

Only the unprepared are overcome by pressure

I sometimes think that there is nothing but time, that what you see and what you feel is what time looks like at that moment.

[People] feel a connection to a guy like Omar Mateen. But they clearly are not angry at him.

I do believe that almost everything I do is based on my feelings, not on my intellect. Though But we won't chase ourselves up the particular sentiment, or we'll get lost.

The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.