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.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Fools buy houses—the wise live in them.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others. 

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

Nature does nothing in vain.

It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.