Nothing recedes like progress.

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn’t say or do and wish we could take it back.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Some of the generals are saying, ‚We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.‘ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

I think I had a mild case of Asperger’s as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

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.

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

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.

To make headway, improve your head.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

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

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It’s a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

What I love best in life is new starts.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

In Hollywood, a lot of times when something is in development, it just takes a lot of time.

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

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

‚Hope and change‘ has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American could hope for change from what God has blessed.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

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.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

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

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

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

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

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God… Reverence to God and reverence for one’s neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.

I think we’re having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we’re always trying to do better.

The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people’s eyes before you even put out an album.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

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 point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

The court generally moves in small steps rather than in one giant step.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion – it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.