The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of "winning friends.

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.

Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?

Going out of style isn't a natural process, but a manipulated change which destroys the beauty of last year's dress in order to make it worthless.

If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.

Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well, we must stop building one in which it will be impossible to live at all.