Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

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

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It’s embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

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.

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

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

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.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

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.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

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 need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Revolutions go not backward.

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

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 excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

Things do not change; we change.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

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.

I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change.

Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.

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

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.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

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 is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

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.

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.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‚If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?‘ And whenever the answer has been ‚No‘ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

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.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

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.

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.

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

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

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

People can cry much easier than they can change.

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

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

My musical taste and image is going to change naturally. It’s not forced; I do what comes natural to me. Sometimes, I like to be dark… other times, I like to be really light and ladylike.

Change in all things is sweet.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.