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

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

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.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

To innovate is not to reform.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Wars based on principle are far more destructive… the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

You can’t do something forever.

The schools ain’t what they used to be and never was.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

We were poor, but we smiled.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

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

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

It’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Change alone is unchanging.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

All things are only transitory.

It’s difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn’t available.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

Most poor people live in the poorest countries.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

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

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Nothing endures but change.

I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.