I believe growth should be constant, sustained and inclusive. It’s only meaningful if these three things are there. Otherwise they’re just economic figures.

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

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

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.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

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.

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.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

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.

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

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

Africa is on the rise.

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

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

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

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

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

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

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 spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

What I love best in life is new starts.

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.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

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.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

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.

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

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

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

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.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

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

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn’t say or do and wish we could take it back.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

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.

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

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

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

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

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.

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.

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

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