"An idealist is a person who helps..." - Quote by Henry Ford

“What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.”

“The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.”

“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.”

“He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.”

“When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.”

“We must be the world we want to create.”

“Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.”

“What matters is how well we have loved, and what small part we have played in making the lives around us better.”

“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”