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

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

No one is really working for peace unless he is working primarily for the restoration of wisdom.

Economic development is something much wider and deeper than economics, let alone econometrics. Its roots lie outside the economic sphere, in education, organisation, discipline and, beyond that, in political independence and a national consciousness of self-reliance.

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and thus a problem of two thousand million villagers.

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.