Nothing recedes like progress.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president – with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln – just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we’ve got a lot more work to do. And we’re gonna keep on at it.

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.

I don’t think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It’s embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

I think we’re having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we’re always trying to do better.

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it’s a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

The name Zahra was to have been lman’s own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don’t have to riot.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

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.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Substitute ‚damn‘ every time you’re inclined to write ‚very‘; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.

We have not yet reached the goal but… we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

My experience is listen, see, feel – and then think about what you change.

The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of burning fuel. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

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

When I did A Soldier’s Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

I want to consistently play well and win titles. I’m only at the beginning.