All things are only transitory.

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

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

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.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

Time stays, we go.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

We go on in our pleasures thinking they’re going to last forever.

I’m never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.

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

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

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.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

I am desperate for change – now – not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

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.

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

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

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.

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.

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

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

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

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

Money does not change people, people change.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

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

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

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

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.

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.

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

I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.

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

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

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

There’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

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

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

For 25 years countless people have come to the U.N. climate conferences begging our world leaders to stop emissions and clearly that has not worked as emissions are continuing to rise. So I will not beg the world leaders to care for our future. I will instead let them know change is coming whether they like it or not.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

I can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

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

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.