The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that is, to learn from books rather than from direct, possibly painful, contact with the real world.

The one fact that I would cry form every housetop is this: the Good Life is waiting for us - here and now.

Men build society and society builds men.

Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.

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