As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.

Immaturity means self-centeredness, inability to compromise, to rise above hurt feelings, to postpone immediate pleasures in favor of future benefits, or to do unpleasant chores when they need to be done.

Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much.

Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse

Of the twenty or so civilizations known to modern Western historians, all except our own appear to be dead or moribund, and, when we diagnose each case... we invariably find that the cause of death has been either War or Class or some combination of the two.

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.