We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops.

In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other familiar furniture of economic development.... But we are coming to realize... that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

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