“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity; it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.”
“The real ugliness lies in the relationship between people who produce the technology and the things they produce, which results in a similar relationship between the people who use the technology and the things they use.”
“true Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude”
“There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.”
“Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. There must be the will to produce a superior thing.”
“Ingratitude produces pride while gratitude produces humility.”