There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.

I certainly never feel discouraged. I can't myself raise the winds that might blow us or this ship into a better world. But I can at least put up the sail so that when the winds comes, I can catch it.

An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . .

Man's needs are infinite, and infinitude can be achieved only in the spiritual realm, never in the material.

There are three things healthy people most need to do - to be creatively productive, to render service, and to act in accordance with their moral impulses. In all three respects modern society frustrates most people most of the time.

The generosity of the Earth allows us to feed all mankind; we know enough about ecology to keep the Earth a healthy place; there is enough room on the Earth, and there are enough materials, so that everybody can have adequate shelter; we are quite competent enough to produce sufficient supplies of necessities so that no one need live in misery.

Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear