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.

Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.

It is amazing how much theory we can do without when work actually begins.

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.

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

Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.

The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill our minds. If they are mainly small, weak, superficial, and incoherent, life will appear insipid , uninteresting, petty and chaotic.