There are almost no limits to the discoveries of how the human brain operates in illness and health, in sleep and waking and dreaming, in calm and under tension. The question is how far man can put these discoveries to use without using them not for cure but for power.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart.

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

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

Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.

If you mean by capitalism the God-given right of a few big corporations to make all the decisions that will affect millions of workers and consumers and to exclude everyone else from discussing and examining those decisions, then the unions are threatening capitalism.