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.

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

Doubt grows with knowledge.

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.

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

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.

China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.

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.

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.

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

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

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.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you’re doing good in my book.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

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

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

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

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

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

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

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.

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

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.

Africa will thrive.

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

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.

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.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

There is no education like adversity.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

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

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

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

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.

Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations – if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.

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

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.

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.

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

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

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

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

New roads; new ruts.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.