Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do

Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India

A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from

All women’s dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the un-admitted desire to undress

It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.

I have done my best.’ That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.

All Chinese are Confucianists when successful, and Taoists when they are failures

There is nothing more beautiful in the world than a healthy wise old man

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do