Education fails unless the Three R's at one end of the school spectrum lead ultimately to the Four P's at the other-Preparati on for Earning, Preparation for Living, Preparation for Understanding, Preparation for Participation in the problems involved in the making of a better world.

Belief creates biology.

The physician knows that his little black bag can carry him only so far and that the body's own healing system is the main resource.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

What people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those things that are essential for their survival. They need to convert facts into logic, free will into purpose, conscience into decision. They need to convert historical experience into a design for a sane world.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.