The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.  

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? For. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

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.

If you know it is going to be a tight-rope walk, you might as well carry a bamboo to balance yourself.

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

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.