Change in all things is sweet.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

You can’t do something forever.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

The Green Revolution focused on the big three – maize, rice and wheat – and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have.

Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

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.

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.

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

Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

I don’t know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn’t hurt the book.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

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.

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn’t say or do and wish we could take it back.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

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

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

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

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?‘

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

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

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.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

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

We have one planet in our solar system that’s habitable, and that’s the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.

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 secret of getting ahead is getting started.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

Things do not change; we change.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

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.