"In my young days, I had tasted only gladness, But loved to mount the top floor But loved to mount the top floor To write a song pretending sadness. And now I've tasted Sorrow's flavors, bitter and sour, And can't find a word, And can't find a word, But merely say, "What a golden autumn hour""
"Many actions have no results——they come to naught."
"Don't ever say, This is very serious. For sixty years I have been hearing that things are very serious. ....... It is very serious to man, to live, to carry on. And yet it is also true that, as the Italian minister suggested, life is very simple, very beautiful; and that it has been going on now for"
"A young person is tempted by every possibility, and the possibilities are infinite. Limiting himself to a choice irks him. He wants to have every kind of friend; to embark upon every kind of career; to experience every kind of love. But one of life's conditions is that he must limit himself; he has "
"In the general survey of Chinese art and Chinese life, theconviction must have been forced upon us that the Chineseare past masters in the art of living There is a certain whole hearted concentration on the material life, a certain zest inliving, which is mellower, perhaps deeper, anyway just asinte"