There are two kinds of animals on earth. One kind minds his own business, the other minds other people's business. The former are vegetarians, like c… - Lin Yutang

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

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it, and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world, in respect to time and space. His life falls into a set routine; he is limited to contact and conversation with a few friends and acquaintances, and he sees only what happens in his immediate neighbourhood. From this prison there is no escape. But the moment he takes up a book, he immediately enters a different world, and if it is a good book, he is immediately put in touch with one of the best talkers of the world. This talker leads him on and carries him into a different country or a different age, or unburdens to him some of his personal regrets, or discusses with him some special line or aspect of life that the reader knows nothing about. An ancient author puts him in communion with a dead spirit of long ago, and as he reads along, he begins to imagine what the ancient author looked like and what type of person he was.