The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that’s rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

India should walk on her own shadow – we must have our own development model.

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

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

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

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

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.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

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.

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You’re not out of it until the computer says you’re out of it.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren’t dependent on Washington doing something different.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

I have always enjoyed watching my songs make people cry.

Anyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

We welcome the scrutiny of the world – because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

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

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

The tool that’s most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite.

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

I’m thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn’t still be here if it weren’t for them.

Change in all things is sweet.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what’s really happened.

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.

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

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

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.

I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

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.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

Africa will thrive.

Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

Everywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

I do not want medical men to discuss whether or not my work is valuable, because I know what it will do. I want them to tell me how best this new knowledge of rapidly restoring paralysed people to health and strength can be applied where it is needed.

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

If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they’ve done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.