Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. 

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself.