A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people – along with despair about its future.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

Last year we said, ‚Things can’t go on like this‘, and they didn’t, they got worse.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Some of the most moving experiences I’ve had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

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.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

I’m a hard guy to live with. I’m like a caged animal. I’m up all night walking around the living room. It’s hard for me to come down from what I do.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.

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

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

I’m not a fortune-teller.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

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.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

The Joker is my favorite villain of all time: You don’t know his past; you just know what his plans are.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don’t know the plot. They don’t know their own individual plot… they don’t know what’s going to happen to them.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.