growth Quotes

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.