History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.

Renewal is not just innovation and change. It is also the process of bringing the results of change into line with our purposes.

If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota.

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."

Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, "You can't keep a good man down." Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down.