The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.

Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our choices.

The fundamental task is to achieve smallness within large organisation.

Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed

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.

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.