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

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

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

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

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

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

I can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

There are many people in the world who really don’t understand-or say they don’t-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

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

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

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 good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

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

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion – it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

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.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

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.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

I’m doing more of my U.N. work and doing the African Union Summit and things like that.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Let the path be open to talent.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.

Nothing recedes like progress.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

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.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

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

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

Every wall is a door.

Change in all things is sweet.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

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.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

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

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

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

The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

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

I don’t know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there’s a good English phrase for it – cold war.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

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.