The ultimate gift of conscious life is a sense of the mystery that encompasses it.

Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal."

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

In our entrancement with the motorcar, we have forgotten how much more efficient and how much more flexible the footwalker is.

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.