I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‚how‘ and ‚why‘ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

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

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

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

Talking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

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.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

What I’m hoping is that every album I’m going to do will give my audience something different, and that they’ll grow as I do.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

We don’t mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

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

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.

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

I’m from the generation that had the boys‘ door and the girls‘ door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

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

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, ‚Oh, wow. I could say this some day on stage.‘

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

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.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

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.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the ‚Pilgrim’s Progress,‘ my first collection was of John Bunyan’s works in separate little volumes.