A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

Fortunately or otherwise we live at a time when the average individual has to know several times as much in order to keep informed as he did only thirty or forty years ago. Being "educated" today requires not only more than a superficial knowledge of the arts and sciences, but a sense of inter-relationship such as is taught in few schools. Finally, being "educated" today, in terms of the larger needs, means preparation for world citizenship; in short, education for survival.

The message from the moon which we have flashed to the far corners of this planet is that no problem need any longer be considered insoluble.

If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication.

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.