We are going to transform Britain’s rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you’ve lived a good life.

What we achieved was a nuclear pause, not a nuclear halt.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed, my style changed.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today.

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

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Applause waits on success.

All great achievements require time.

Africa will thrive.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

I am proud of having done what I’ve done. Very proud.

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

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

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

I always make my dreams into goals.

Nothing recedes like progress.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

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.

I used to dream about taking the ball ‚round the keeper, stopping it on the line, and then getting on my hands and knees and heading it into the net. When I scored against Benfica in the 1968 European Cup final, I nearly did it. I left the keeper for dead, but then I chickened out.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

Einstein’s gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical physics, resulted in beautiful relations connecting gravitational phenomena with the geometry of space; this was an exciting idea.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

Well begun is half done.

The court generally moves in small steps rather than in one giant step.

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.

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

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

Indians invest more in Britain than in the rest of European Union combined. It is not because they want to save on interpretation costs, but because they find an environment that is welcoming and familiar.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

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.