No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.

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.

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.

Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.

LIFE IS SUBVERSIVE

To be able to see one’s own faults

Work hard and take risks. Try it before you confirm it is difficult!

If I abuse myself daily, who can I love?

... my daughter McKenna thought I sang with the Everly Brothers ... I said, 'no I was one of the Righteous Brothers' and she said 'didn't they invent the airplane?'

Songs aren't owned by anyone.

While you're busy looking for the perfect person, you'll probably miss the imperfect person who could make you perfectly happy.

Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.

I don't trust photographers. I'm now a relaxed, contented 60 year-old, but look at my pictures and you see a crazy, bug-eyed serial killer.

The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.