Faith will not be restored in the West because people believe it to be useful. It will return only when they find that it is true.

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

The gaps in power, the gaps in wealth, the gaps in ideology which hold the nations apart also make up the abyss into which mankind can fall to annihilation.

in modern society, fear of unemployment remains the darkest of the shadows thrown by the past. In an industrial order, a man out of work is almost a man out of life.

It is a truism that one person who wants something is a hundred times stronger than a hundred who want to be left alone.

It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations.

I have the impression that when we talk so confidently of liberty, we are unaware of the awful ... servitude of poverty when means are so small that there is literally no choice at all.

There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.

The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that the press and camera will report their exact dimensions.

If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition, to believe that progress is possible may well be the greatest revolution of all.

Business shouldn't be like sports, separating the men from the women.

If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.

The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circuit surveillance camera into the classroom. I will never forget, as a kid, looking at that image.

You have a choice in life very often whether you do good or you feel good.

Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.

Success is more a part of who you are, than anything outside of you.

In a normal education everything is designed to suppress spontaneity, but I wanted to develop it.

There's a film you write, there's a film you shoot, and there's a film that you cut - and they're all different.

If the mind is not contrived, it is spontaneously blissful, just as water, when not agitated, is by nature transparent and clear.

Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.

If you wish to see the thousand years, look at today; if you wish to understand the millionfold, then look at the one or the two.