In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.
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.
The whole community must be saved [in Tibet].
What we can do, we will try to do.
Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature is a dysfunctional delusion.
I think if you watch a lot of what I do, you're going to ultimately walk away seeing me. I can't hide - that impression is a personal impression people have of me.