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, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

No one is really working for peace unless he is working primarily for the restoration of wisdom.

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.

Nobody really likes large-scale organizations; nobody likes to take orders from a superior who takes orders from a superior who takes orders.

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.