We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal.

Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.

Every man should be his own guru; every woman her own gurette.

The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.

Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.

Without courage, all other virtues are useless.