We worry about the future with unprecedented fervor. We know our lakes are dying, our rivers are growing dirtier, our atmosphere is becoming increasingly polluted, and we live under the brooding threat of terrorist attack. We are aware that oppressive poverty exists in the midst of affluence. We see our once-great cities deteriorating. We are threatened as members of the human species because we understand that the problems of warfare, population and environment do not stop at our national borders. The planet is facing disater. Our concern is well justified. It is time to do something about the problem. If we are not too late, it is within reason that we can be successsful.

• The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will


• The perpetual obstacle of human advancement is custom


• People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things


• If you want to get across an idea wrap it up in a person