Nothing endures but change.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

You can’t have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

I believe growth should be constant, sustained and inclusive. It’s only meaningful if these three things are there. Otherwise they’re just economic figures.

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

Great loves too must be endured.

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

Revolutions go not backward.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be… a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

That’s something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

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.

Nobody’s indispensable.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

I swam underwater for 50 meters at a time and walked the length of the pool underwater, with a brick in each hand, all on a single breath.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don’t believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can’t possibly foresee now.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.