I have tried raising money by asking for it, and by not asking for it. I always got more by asking for it.

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.

Our mandate in Habitat for Humanity is to work diligently to help bring into being graceful communities, towns, and cities. his is so important because the alternative is disgraceful. We must begin to think like this. If we do, we will increasingly see transformations in our communities.

Faith must become more than a verbal proclamation or an intellectual assent. True faith must be acted out.

In various ways all of us should be constantly finding people and situations that are dead, buried, and covered up in order to help bring them to the light because THE GOD THAT WE SERVE is a God of LIGHT, a God of LOVE, and a God of CARING.

For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other.

The only safe investment one can make in life is what is given away.

Faith without works is as dead as a doornail.

We have the know-how in the world to house everyone. We have the resources in the world to house everyone. All that's missing is the WILL to do it.

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

I see life as both a gift and a responsibility. My responsibility is to use what God has given me to help His people in need.