Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organization, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain latent, untapped, potential.

Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.

Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.

I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others

The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.

Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see.