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

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.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

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.

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

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

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

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

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.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

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.

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

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.

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

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 biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

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

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

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

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

I am fearful, or suspicious, of generalizations… They cannot guide me reliably in making decisions about particular individuals.

There is no such things as ‚best‘ in the world of individuals.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.

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

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

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

In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

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

We’re close friends – the American people, the Israeli people, our governments. There’s absolutely no daylight – none – between us and the Israelis on the question of Israel’s security.

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.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

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 suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

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.

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

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

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.

Soon, I’ll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.