What is important is how much service you can give to the world and how much better you can make things. These are important things. These are all that are important. A bank account never measured the worth of a man. His ability to help measured his worth and that's all. A bank account can assist one to help but where it ceases to do that it becomes useless.

A culture is as rich and as capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists, skilled men of science, a high ethic level, workable government, land and natural resources, in about that order of importance.

It is in your power to point the way to a less dangerous and happier life.

Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.

The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.

Convince a man that he is an animal, that his own dignity and selfrespect are delusions, that there is no 'beyond' to aspire to, no higher potential self to achieve, and you have a slave. Let a man know he is himself, a spiritual being, that he is capable of the power of choice and has the right to aspire to greater wisdom and you have started him up a higher road.

The Arab is trying to be pleased with death and murder and mayhem and disease and poverty and political unrest.