My business acumen is definitely growing.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

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

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

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.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

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.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

People have more freedom to bring more of their personal qualities into the role they play once they have established themselves and their competence is no longer in question. But this is always within limits.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

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

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

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

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

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

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

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.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.

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.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

What I love best in life is new starts.

I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

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!

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

Every artist was first an amateur.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

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

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.