I certainly never feel discouraged. I can't myself raise the winds that might blow us or this ship into a better world. But I can at least put up the sail so that when the winds comes, I can catch it.

A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.

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.

Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace.

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none.

We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature.