The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

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.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

As more airlines consolidated and grew larger and more focused on the bottom line, flying in the U.S. became an awful experience. Despite moves to block our airline from flying, Virgin America began service in August 2007 – with the goal of making flying good again.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

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

I can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Senator McCain is Israel’s most unconditional ally in Mossad’s machinations, something that even his worst adversaries would have been able to imagine. McCain participated alongside this secret service in the creation of the Islamic State, which has appropriated a considerable part of Iraq as well as a third of Syria, according to its affirmations.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‚how‘ and ‚why‘ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

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

No driver is perfect.

The solar system can support a trillion humans. And then we’d have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins.

The earth’s crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the horizon. Granites are still growing under the continental masses. Nor has the organic world ceased to produce new buds at the tips of its countless branches.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

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

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

Without deviation progress is not possible.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

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

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

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

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, – till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

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.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

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.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.