The poet or the story-teller who cannot give the reader a little ghostly pleasure at times never can be either a really great writer or a great thinker.

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.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.

Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.

I should be content to look at a mountain for what it is and not as a comment on my life.

Death is the last fact of which we can be certain.

The way you get through having a shitty job is to laugh a lot and goof around.

My final destination is my complete knowledge of God.

However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest of Eternity.

When we are unable to receive, we deny someone else the pleasure of giving.

He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.