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

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Whether we’re Democrats, Republicans, or independents – it does not matter. We all understand that an attack on any one of us is an attack on all of us.

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

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

I am such a political person.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

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

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.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

I think I’ve got wiser.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

Africa is on the rise.

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

On the ‚Star,‘ you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.

The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

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

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.

The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy – the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities – which allows a people to choose their own way to develop their own culture, to reconcile their own differences through peaceful means.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

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.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

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

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

The march of the human mind is slow.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of burning fuel. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

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

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

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

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.

I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I’m 100 percent fiction writer… I don’t want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don’t state my political messages to anybody.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Latin America has much richer resources. You’d expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.