Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

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.

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.

The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.

The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.

But I think traveling around and going around the world and making arrangements for moving around is the most difficult thing, 'cuz you don't know what's going to happen.

An affirmation opens the door. It's a beginning point on the path to change.

I don't cover my face because I want to show my identity.

I have always had this outrage at being told what to, how to act, whom to love.

You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning.

Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice.

Smile. It creates positive physiological change.

I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.

When you turn to God you discover He has been facing you all the time.