We don’t mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

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

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.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

Children always turn to the light.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

Nothing recedes like progress.

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.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

You don’t have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn’t know you possessed.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

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

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.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

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

That’s something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

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.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

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

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

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

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Every artist was first an amateur.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don’t have to riot.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.