"Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit"

"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards"

"Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be"

"Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity"

"Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me"

"In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am"

"First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her - for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys"

"The power to question is the basis of all human progress"

"Thirty percent of the Nation's energy comes off the gulf coast"

"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages"

"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"