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

There are many people in the world who really don’t understand-or say they don’t-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

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

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

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

I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

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

Age merely shows what children we remain.

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.

Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won’t get to choose your doctor – that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That’s also not true.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

The redwood is the glory of the Coast Range. It extends along the western slope, in a nearly continuous belt about ten miles wide, from beyond the Oregon boundary to the south of Santa Cruz, a distance of nearly four hundred miles, and in massive, sustained grandeur and closeness of growth surpasses all the other timber woods of the world.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

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.

New roads; new ruts.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it’s different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He’s very quick.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

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.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

No driver is perfect.

Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

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.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.

Let the path be open to talent.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

We’re running the company to serve more people.

Children always turn to the light.

Nothing recedes like progress.

Nothing endures but change.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

Every wall is a door.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

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

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

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.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.