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.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

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

I don’t like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

That’s the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God – so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true… Hell, don’t pose me that one.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

Life is wasted on the living.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

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

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!

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

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

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

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

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

While some doubted that connecting the world was actually important, we were building. While others doubted that this would be sustainable, you were forming lasting connections. We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn’t work today.

I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

We live in a bewildering world.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

Changes are not unusual – I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it’s the end of the world.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Our life is made by the death of others.

Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

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

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one’s youth back again?

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.