Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.

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

All of us celebrate our values in our behavior.

When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard.

More and more Americans feel threatened by runaway technology, by large-scale organization, by overcrowding. More and more Americans are appalled by the ravages of industrial progress, by the defacement of nature, by man-made ugliness. 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.

Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.