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

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

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

Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom - the less you need, the freer you become.

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

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.

The substance of man cannot be measured by Gross National Product.