"The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it."

"I grew up believing that the novel has nothing to do with pure literature. So I was taught by scholars. The art of li…"

"Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized peopl…"

"There was an old abbot in one temple and he said something of which I think often and it was this, that when men dest…"

"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and so they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after gene…"

"Shri Guru Granth Sahib is a source book, an expression of man's loneliness, his aspiration, his longings, his cry to …"

"To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death."

"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word — excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it."

"Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked."

"The Chinese novel was written primarily to amuse the common people. And when I say amuse I do not mean only to make t…"