All progression is in the relative world.

Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.

The things I've done in my life have required a lot of years of work before they took off.

If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the sapling, and work out what might potentially stop it from growing all the way along. Anything that breaks it at any point stops that growth.

Unless we progress, we regress.

There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.