‚Hope and change‘ has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American could hope for change from what God has blessed.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

People tell me that they are so hopeful when they see me and other children ‚school-striking,‘ and they say, ‚Oh the children are going to save us.‘ But no, we aren’t. We are too young to be able to do that. We don’t have time to wait for us to grow up and fix this in the future.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

All missionaries, younger and older, serve with the sole hope of making life better for other people.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

We can have no ’50-50′ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

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.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

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.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.

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

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

You can’t do something forever.

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

Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

The Army was always big on Clausewitz, the Prussian; the Navy on Alfred Thayer Mahan, the American; and the Air Force on Giulio Douhet, the Italian. But the Marine Corps has always been more Eastern-oriented. I am much more comfortable with Sun-tzu and his approach to warfare.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

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.

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

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

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

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