In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give any meaning to the efforts at military security.

The Russians train; they do not dare educate.

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.

A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never command belief in the realm of the superhuman.

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.