Faith in the creative process, in the dynamics of emergence, in the values and purposes that transcend past achievements and past forms, is the precondition of all further growth.

For most Americans, progress means accepting what is new because it is new, and discarding what is old because it is old.

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

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

Above all we need, particularly as children, the reassuring presence of a visible community, an intimate group that enfolds us with understanding and love, and that becomes an object of our spontaneous loyalty, as a criterion and point of reference for the rest of the human race.

Man's Chief purpose is the creation and preservation of values; that is what gives meaning to our civilization, and the participation in this is what gives significance, ultimately, to the individual human life.

The fact that order and creativity are complementary has been basic to man's cultural development; for he has to internalize order to be able to give external form to his creativity.