Lin Yutang

“A good traveler is one who who does not know where he is going to , and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.”

“There is a certain proper and luxurious way of lying in bed. Confucius, that great artist of life, "never lay straight" in bed, "like a corpse", but always curled up on one side. I believe one of the greatest pleasures of life is to curl up one's legs in bed. The posture of the arms is also very important, in order to reach the greatest degree of aesthetic pleasure and mental power. I believe the best posture is not lying flat on the bed, but being upholstered with big soft pillows at an angle of thirty degrees with either one arm or both arms placed behind the back of one's head.”

“Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.”

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.”

“Reality - Dreams = Animal BeingReality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism)Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism)Dreams - Humor = FanaticismDreams + Humor = FantasyReality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom”

“When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.”

“If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.”

“Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.”

“For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it is not sufficient that a proposition be logically correct, but it must be at the same time in accord with human nature.”

“Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.”

“This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.”