The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.

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

Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation to man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations: as long as you have not shown it to be "uneconomic" you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.

Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.

The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism, which demands hardly anything.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.