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.

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.

When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed, my style changed.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

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

That’s what I do this for, to secure my family’s future. I don’t care about anything else. I’m able to spoil people, and that’s the best thing.

People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That’s because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

New roads; new ruts.

It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

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.

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it’s cool.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Some of the most moving experiences I’ve had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

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.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

I think I’m one of the most patriotic people that I’ve ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way – not by donations; I work at it.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

Civil disobedience’s main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

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.

I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who’s spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn’t commit.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

Most of us enter adult life with great ambitions for how we will start our own ventures, but the harshness of life wears us down. We settle into some job and slowly give in to the illusion that our bosses care about us and our future, that they spend time thinking of our welfare.

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

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn’t do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

The future of American film lies on television.

The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin‘ hell, but as long as they ain’t free, I ain’t free.

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.

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

It is our future on the line, and we must at least have a say in it.

I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.

Of course, there is no question that Libya – and the world – will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

I liberate minds with my music. That’s more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

I’ve known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

I don’t think people are going to talk in the future. They’re going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

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

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

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.

I’m not a fortune-teller.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.