The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the wo….

Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress..

Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition..

The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on, that you experience the momentary….

I've never not been famous..

Think of US slavery in 1850, or the subjection of women. Both of these injustices could have been - and were! - defended by pointing out, quite corre….

Unfortunately, the current pace of progress is not nearly rapid enough, with many rich industrialised countries being slow to make the transition to ….

I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a critic..

life is a work in progress..

When you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu, my friend Lee Saunders has said, and he is correct..

No paradox, no progress..

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to [money management]; for. ... want….

I have to change to stay the same..

Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable….

You live day by day. You can't build your life..

I is what I is, and I'm not changing..

Self-complacen cy is fatal to progress..

The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema..

I have seen myself backward..

The surest sign of fitness is success..

When I practiced, I practiced to get it right..