growth Quotes

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

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

What is once well done is done forever.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a book. You do it over and over, always trying to be a little bit better. Then you die.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

I think you're working and learning until you die.