Our physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity.

The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself.

the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.

man's oldest and least reputable occupation - war.

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

if we continue with what is surely our greatest Western temptation, and think that in some way history owes us a solution, that we can, by pursuing our own most parochial self-interest, achieve in some miraculous way a consummation of world order, then we are heading not simply towards great disappointments, but towards disaster and tragedy as well.

Every single ancient wisdom and religion will tell you the same thing - don't live entirely for yourself, live for other people. Don't get stuck inside your own ego, because it will become a prison in no time flat.