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

While in the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them, as anybody who has a knowledge of Chinese literature will testify.

After all, only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them. Seriousness, after all, is only a sign of effort, and effort is a sign of imperfect mastery,

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