All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

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

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible – and no one can now doubt the word of America.

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

I grew up in San Francisco. And so I’m informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I’m a very ardent patriot.

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

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

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.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

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.

Whether we’re Democrats, Republicans, or independents – it does not matter. We all understand that an attack on any one of us is an attack on all of us.

I will never relent in defending America – whatever it takes.

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

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

Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let’s seek to heal rather than to wound each other.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Here in America, we don’t give in to our fears. We don’t build up walls to keep people out.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.

Where I grew up – I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights – that’s every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don’t want your kids to hear growing up.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

There are disasters that happen – Hurricane Harvey came up, and you had people self-organizing through the community and getting in boats and driving around rescuing people coordinated ad hoc through this network. That’s not a media function.

We don’t want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

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.

That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don’t fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

Since coming back from overseas, this is more of a foreign country than the places overseas. I don’t understand it. It’s like America has lost faith in rational thought.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Global energy security is a vital part of America’s national security.

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.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it’s not like that.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

I don’t know if it’s changing already with ‚Joanne,‘ but my intention is to bring people together that don’t know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That’s what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.

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.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren’t dependent on Washington doing something different.

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn’t in her.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.