What you do [to provide better aid is] you shut up. You never arrive in a community with any ideas.

There's only one thing that all the successful companies in the world have in common: None was started by one person.

The future of every community lies in capturing the passion, imagination, and resources of its people.

Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.

If people don't want to be helped, leave them alone.

The first principle of aid is respect.

Nobody in the world can succeed alone.

The death of the entrepreneur is solitude.

We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.

To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die is the wish of the ambitious.

People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents.

So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race.

People who don't fit the mold are treated differently than those who do.

If you walk backwards, you'll find out you can go forwards and people won't know if you're coming or going.

When I see these primitive effects coming into my pictures subconsciously, even though the perspective may be slightly out, I leave them in if it helps the general composition.

Forests are the lungs of our land.

The Portrait of a Lady is entirely successful in giving one the sense of having met somebody far too radiantly good for this world.

Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.