Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

I don’t think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.

Africa is on the rise.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

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.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

I’ve grown accustomed to hotels and drastic climate change.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

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.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

No one can say, ‚I have dropped out – I am no longer in the system.‘ When you’re in prison, you’re even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don’t transform the system as an absolute thing.

If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

‚Hope and change‘ has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American could hope for change from what God has blessed.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

No driver is perfect.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

What I love best in life is new starts.

Africa will thrive.

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.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

For different roles, my condition and training and diet does alter. Depending on the role, it will really dictate the type of training I do.

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.

What I’m hoping is that every album I’m going to do will give my audience something different, and that they’ll grow as I do.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

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

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

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.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

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.

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

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

The state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: ‚What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?‘