Without deviation progress is not possible.

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

This young century will be liberty’s century.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Writing is like anything else – the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you’ll be about what’s going to happen to it, where it’s going, what it sounds like, whether it’s right.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

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

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

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

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 have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

Change in all things is sweet.

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

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it’s a shield.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

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.

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.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

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

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

You’ve got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That’s it; that’s the way we move forward. That’s how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.

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

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

My role 14 years ago in Richard III – that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it – they have all the fun!

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

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

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

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.

And we have done more in the two and a half years that I’ve been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it’s ending ‚don’t ask, don’t tell,‘ making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

No driver is perfect.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

No great thing is created suddenly.

To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neither side completely lived up to their obligations. Clinton didn’t do what was promised, nor did North Korea, but they were making progress.