Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our choices.

I cannot predict the wind but I can have my sail ready.

Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear

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.

You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side

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.