Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

High-quality early-childhood programs and health coverage have expanded, and the number of mentoring relationships for at-risk youth has risen dramatically. That progress is encouraging, but it’s not evenly distributed.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

Change in all things is sweet.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

We have not yet reached the goal but… we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

I want to consistently play well and win titles. I’m only at the beginning.

Some people, they take their form of working out as a religion that they think is better than everyone else’s. I’m not like that. If you have a better way to work out, and you can teach it to me, and I find it to be useful and gets me in better shape, I’m all about.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition – put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes – is improving because of innovation.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

I tend not to look back and dwell on a project once it is finished.

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

I don’t think any country is perfect. It’s our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don’t like. I think that’s part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president – with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln – just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we’ve got a lot more work to do. And we’re gonna keep on at it.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone – and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

Don’t just eat McDonald’s, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That’s what fashion is. It’s something that is a bit better.

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

In two decades I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.