It's not your blue blood, your pedigree, or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.

For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other.

We have the know-how in the world to house everyone. We have the resources in the world to house everyone. All that's missing is the WILL to do it.

This is God's work. It makes blisters and it makes sweat, but it's worth my time and it's worth your time....Working together as God's people in the world-I don't know of anything more rewarding.

I see life as both a gift and a responsibility. My responsibility is to use what God has given me to help His people in need.

We want to make it socially, morally, politically and religiously unacceptable to have substandard housing and homelessness.

There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority.

Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay.

I have tried raising money by asking for it, and by not asking for it. I always got more by asking for it.

The only safe investment one can make in life is what is given away.

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

There’s an alternate view. That no man or woman alive is the disempowered victim of another’s degrading circumstance. Each is equipped to pursue their own fate. No one needs saving.

It is better to be envied than pitied.

Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.

This cement can be used in any situation and for any purpose to which any other mortar or hydraulic cement can be applied. It does not become perfectly hard within one or two months.

I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy.

A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.

I watch sports all the time. My wife Cindy says I would watch the thumb-suckers play the bed-wetters. I watch all sports and I enjoy all sports. It's been great fun in my life and a great diversion.

pity and charity may be at root an attempt to propitiate the dark powers that have not touched us yet.

With a chemical alarm, you're going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side