"In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished."

"Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion."

"Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes."

"Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka."

"The universe speaks in the silent dialect of universal natural laws. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds."

"The harmony of the universe dictates that the melody of life is composed of both highs and lows."

"It is a steadfast truth that the universe speaks in the silent dialect of universal natural laws — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs."