We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create.

Most people acquire most of their knowledge outside school, and in school only insofar as school, in a few rich countries, has become their place of confinement during an increasing part of their lives.

School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.

The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.

The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive materialization of values. The ecological balance cannot be re-established unless we recognize again that only persons have ends and only persons can work towards them.

Leadership does not depend on being right.

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God