I regard the discovery of one’s favorite author as the most critical event in one’s intellectual development. - Lin Yutang

knew as well as any American that America was shipping oil and scrap iron to Tokyo to bomb Chinese women and children.

To the West, it seems hardly imaginable that the relationship between man and man (which is morality) could be maintained without reference to a Supreme Being, while to the Chinese it is equally amazing that men should not, or could not, behave toward one another as decent beings without thinking of their indirect relationship through a third party.

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.