We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at.'

The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid the inner devastations. His technique was to practice the opposite emotion... a man may not get his freedom or possessions back, but he's less miserable. It's a difficult lesson.

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.

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

Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.

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