The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.

After each war there is a little less democracy left to save.

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.

Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be.