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

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

The earth’s crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the horizon. Granites are still growing under the continental masses. Nor has the organic world ceased to produce new buds at the tips of its countless branches.

To the people I forgot, you weren’t on my mind for some reason and you probably don’t deserve any thanks anyway.

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

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.

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.

Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

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.

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.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

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

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

I’m often accused of being ahead of my time, but it’s simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

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

It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

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

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

I always joke that my kids‘ favorite holiday is Father’s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.

For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it’s been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I’d just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

Surely the wake left behind by mankind’s forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.

To make headway, improve your head.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘

Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you’re in, you’re gonna worry about raising kids. But it’s champagne problems, too. There are people who can’t feed their kids.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

To innovate is not to reform.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

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

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

I’m healthy as can be – not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.