Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: "Well, who are the best people to live with?

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.

Our task is not to find love but to remove all blocks that we have built against it.

What lies in our power to do it lies in our power not to do.

The Church therefore has one inescapable task: To lift up Christ. When she seeks to lift herself up she becomes weak, but when she acknowledges her own weakness and proclaims her Lord, she is strong.

You never get tired unless you stop and take time for it.

The point of your life is to point to Him...it is His movie, His world, His gift.

Facebook has revealed their estimated net worth - $96 billion. That's almost as much money as businesses lose every year from their employees wasting time looking at Facebook.

The Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it.

Quantum mechanics is weird. I don't understand it. Just live with it. You don't have to understand the nature of things in order to build cool devices.

Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him.