A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible old men.

The final goal of human effort is man's self-transforma tion.

Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self-understanding and self-discipline.

Man's Chief purpose... is the creation and preservation of values; that is what gives meaning to our civilization, and the participation in this is what gives significance, ultimately, to the individual human life.

Before modern man can gain control over the forces that now threaten his very existence, he must resume possession of himself. This sets the chief mission for the city of the future: that of creating a visible regional and civic structure, designed to make man at home with his deeper self and his larger world, attached to images of human nature and love.

When cities were first founded, an old Egyptian scribe tells us, the mission of the founder was to 'put gods in their shrines.' The task of the coming city is not essentially different: its mission is to put the highest concerns of man at the center of all his activities.

Geneva has the sleepy tidiness of a man who combs his hair while yet in his pyjamas.

Idealism and science continue to function in separate compartments; and yet 'the happiness of man on earth' depends upon their combination.