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.

Many have no desire to be in it, because their work does not interest them, providing them with neither challenge nor satisfaction, and has no other merit in their eyes than that it leads to a pay-packet at the end of the week.

There are three things healthy people most need to do - to be creatively productive, to render service, and to act in accordance with their moral impulses. In all three respects modern society frustrates most people most of the time.

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

If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters

Man's needs are infinite, and infinitude can be achieved only in the spiritual realm, never in the material.

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.