We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance and that in the end progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

I don't think balance is something you get from someone else it's something women have to find from within. For me finding balance is still a work in progress.

I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit instigate brutal life and death struggles destroy a society's tolerance and humanity and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

If to live is to progress if you are lucky from foolishness to wisdom then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.