Without deviation progress is not possible.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that’s rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Nothing endures but change.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

What I love best in life is new starts.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

The day will come – and it is not far off – when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

I definitely wasn’t anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

On the court, I want to try and get to the free-throw line a little more. And as a point guard, you can always get better at your decision-making and limiting your mistakes.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don’t see what goes on underground – as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don’t see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.