What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

The final goal of human effort is man's self-transforma tion.

Organic planning does not begin with a preconceived goal; it moves from need to need, from opportunity to opportunity, in a series of adaptations that themselves become increasingly coherent and purposeful, so that they generate a complex final design, hardly less unified than a pre-formed geometric pattern.

Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.

If we never met again in our lives I should feel that somehow the whole adventure of existence was justified by my having met you.