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.

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

The fundamental task is to achieve smallness within large organisation.

Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom - the less you need, the freer you become.

Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.

If I limit myself to knowledge that I consider true beyond doubt, I minimize the risk of error but I maximize, at the same time, the risk of missing out on what may be the subtlest, most important and most rewarding things in life.

The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism, which demands hardly anything.