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.

I have the impression that when we talk so confidently of liberty, we are unaware of the awful ... servitude of poverty when means are so small that there is literally no choice at all.

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

It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.

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

It is a truism that one person who wants something is a hundred times stronger than a hundred who want to be left alone.

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.