All experience is an arch, to build upon.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

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.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

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

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

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

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

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.

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

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.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

If you’ve spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Children always turn to the light.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.

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

Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community – not from governmental restraints.

Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s more than that. It’s essential for your children and your children’s children.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

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

India should walk on her own shadow – we must have our own development model.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

Nothing great 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 ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

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.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

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

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

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

When you’re young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

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.

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

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