The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.

We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature.

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.

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side

Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace.

To organize work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short of criminal; it would indicate a greater concern with goods than with people, an evil lack of compassion and a soul-destroying degree of attachment to the most primitive side of this worldly existence.

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.