Quotes about Progress

I would argue that masturbation is the human animal's most important adaptation. The very cornerstone of our technological civilization.

Never confuse movement with action.

There's nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility is being superior to your former self.

Joel Henderson was once asked how he had managed to write all those books. He replied that he had never written a book. All he did was write one page a day. With his limited energy and restricted imagination, a page at a time was all that he could manage. But when a year was up he had a 365-page book.

To live only for some future goals is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here's where things grow. But of course, without the top you can't have the sides. It's the top that defines the sides.

I enter a room now not wondering what I am going to do or say, but what the risen Christ has already done, already said. I come in on a story that is in progress, something that is resurrection, already going on. Sometimes I can clarify a word, sharpen a feeling, help recover an essential piece of memory, but always dealing with what the risen Christ has already set in motion, already brought into being.

For we're newcomers at this, with a lot to learn, and not too long to learn it.

Perseverance does not mean "perfection." It means that we keep going. We do not quit when we find that we are not yet mature and there is a long journey still before us.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

'Aurat' is an iconic poem which is relevant 70 years later and informs me in the work I do with women.

You need to dismount when your horse is dead. What was relevant 20 years ago is no longer relevant today. Therefore, you need to reinvent yourself.

No matter our age, circumstances, or abilities, each one of us can create something remarkable of his life.