Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.

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.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

You’ve got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That’s it; that’s the way we move forward. That’s how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

Folks, you’re the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

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.

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

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

Gold is hoarded. It’s estimated that 95 percent of all gold ever mined is still around.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

If you have faith in our leaders of commerce, don’t buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver.

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

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

One day, I want to make a PG film.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

In my research, I’ve interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call ‚different‘: scientists, artists, thinkers. And if you drop down deep into their work and who they are, there is a tremendous amount of self-acceptance.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

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.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

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.

But there’s so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That’s where we are. We don’t get our hair caught in it, but that’s the level of primitiveness of where we are. We’re in 1908.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.