The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It’s a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.

The day will come – and it is not far off – when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs.

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don’t think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

I don’t think anybody in America ought to be scared.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

The march of the human mind is slow.

While some doubted that connecting the world was actually important, we were building. While others doubted that this would be sustainable, you were forming lasting connections. We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

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.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful.

Unlike many of its European neighbors, Britain shares many of America’s financial traits.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.

I love America, it’s a much more permissive place.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government.

This is America. You’re entitled to believe what you want.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.

Because of my parents‘ love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia – first by Hitler and then by Stalin.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

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.

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.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

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.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

I definitely wasn’t anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.

This is not Johnson’s war. This is America’s war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

Africa is on the rise.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that’s why we came to America.

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

Well begun is half done.

For Africa to move forward, you’ve really got to get rid of malaria.