Occupation: Writer Birth: June 26, 1892 Death: March 6, 1973
If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies..
At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them..
Hunger makes a thief of any man..
Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment..
The typhoon came out of the sea first as a deep hollow roar. ... I was surrounded by the madness, the unreason, of uncontrolled, undisciplined energy….
When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place..
God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular..
It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty..
People on the whole are very simple-minded, in whatever country one finds them. They are so simple as to take literally, more often than no, the thin….
Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that the person is complete in hon….
The highest civilizations -- the longest to last and I believe the most successful in human terms -- are those which have come the closest to achievi….
Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'.
The head raised too high even in good will be struck off too soon..
Chinese were bornwith an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qua….
Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity..
Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure..
There will never cease to be ferment in the world unless people are sure of their food..
A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food..
Most mothers kiss and scold together..
Every era of renaissance has come out of new freedoms for peoples. The coming renaissance will be greater than any in human history, for this time al….
A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet..