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

The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and thus a problem of two thousand million villagers.

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

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.

There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.

Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed

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.