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

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

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

‚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.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

My opinion is it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

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

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

I’m seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There’s no black and white to it. But sometimes I’m seeing it like I’m 4.

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.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

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

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

I disagree with everything I used to say.