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Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.

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Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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Where there is no vision, the people perish.

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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.

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