I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing.

The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

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

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

I’m seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There’s no black and white to it. But sometimes I’m seeing it like I’m 4.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

As a kid, I’d go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I’d be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn’t really know what all that meant. I didn’t know.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

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.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

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.

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

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon’s unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

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

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

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

Everybody is idealistic when you’re a kid.

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

Only stupid people are changed by success.

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

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.

There has to be a global mission of human progress.

The redwood is the glory of the Coast Range. It extends along the western slope, in a nearly continuous belt about ten miles wide, from beyond the Oregon boundary to the south of Santa Cruz, a distance of nearly four hundred miles, and in massive, sustained grandeur and closeness of growth surpasses all the other timber woods of the world.

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

In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

This was life in the ’30s. This is the way it was with children in the South. I tried to make it general, the kind of things that might happen to any child.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

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.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

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

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television – there wasn’t a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we’re raised as little girls to think that we’re a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

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.

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.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

I’m like 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

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

My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.

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.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.