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

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

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.

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.

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.

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