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

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.

From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering goods as more important than people and consumption as more important than creative activity. It means shifting the emphasis from the worker to the product of work, that is, from the human to the sub-human, surrender to the forces of evil.

True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.

Man's needs are infinite, and infinitude can be achieved only in the spiritual realm, never in the material.

There is no economic problem and, in a sense, there never has been.

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