All experience is an arch, to build upon.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

No driver is perfect.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it’s a shield.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

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

Latin America has much richer resources. You’d expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

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.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

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 see things in the seed, that is genius.

In order for us to have a future that’s exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we’re a space-bearing civilization.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on.

The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.

We’ve come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

I had a C-section, and I found it fascinating. I didn’t find it a sacrifice, and I didn’t find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

My role 14 years ago in Richard III – that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it – they have all the fun!

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

I didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.

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

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

I did 20 years in the Navy. I joined the Navy right out of high school and went through Navy boot camp, went to SEAL training, got done with that, and then showed up at a SEAL team, where I did 20 years. That was pretty much my whole adult life.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

To ‚choose‘ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy – the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities – which allows a people to choose their own way to develop their own culture, to reconcile their own differences through peaceful means.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.