The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

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.

It is not when he is working in his office but when he is lying idly on the sand that his soul utters, 'Life is beautiful.'

True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst. Psychologically, I think, it means a release of energy.