In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

America has changed [...] The gigantic scale of industrial institutions, of press, television, and commercial advertising has completely divorced me from the American way of life. I want the other side of the coin, a simpler personal sense of living.

I don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like North and South Dakota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There, I think, are the true Americans.

Get out there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe peace, and you'll get it as soon as you like.