“It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.”

“The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.”

“I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to solve their political problems over and over and over again. It's a cruel, repetitious bore.”

“The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story waiting to be read.”

“Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.”

“The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others”