Africa will thrive.

It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.

I’m often accused of being ahead of my time, but it’s simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Children always turn to the light.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.

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.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

As more airlines consolidated and grew larger and more focused on the bottom line, flying in the U.S. became an awful experience. Despite moves to block our airline from flying, Virgin America began service in August 2007 – with the goal of making flying good again.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

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.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

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.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‚how‘ and ‚why‘ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

To innovate is not to reform.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

I was born in Africa. I came to California because it’s really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don’t see a viable competitor.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

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

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

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.

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

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that’s rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

But there’s so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That’s where we are. We don’t get our hair caught in it, but that’s the level of primitiveness of where we are. We’re in 1908.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.