Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.

In many ways a child has actually re-educated the parents upon arrival into their lives - when else do adults take the time to appreciate acorns or clouds?

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.

Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

I do believe that the Iranians are a good neighbour. The Iranians have supported the people of Yemen.