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.

There can be nothing sacred in something that has a price.

We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this.

Nobody really likes large-scale organizations; nobody likes to take orders from a superior who takes orders from a superior who takes orders.

The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material things.

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

An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . .