For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

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.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

Africa will thrive.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

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.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

It’s pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone – and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

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.

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

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

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

There’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that’s rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

‚Pure experience‘ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

We are time’s subjects, and time bids be gone.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

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.

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

I’m really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

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.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

You can’t stop everything from happening. But we’ve gotten to a point where we’re certainly trying. If a car doesn’t have four hundred air bags in it, then it’s no good.

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it’s not like that.

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.

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

I believe that one person can make a difference.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

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

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

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