When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

If you get down and quarrel everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye. 

Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they are basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

Well begun is half done.

I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.