I love to watch times change!

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

All through Latin America, there’s sharp condemnation of the criminal atrocities of Sept. 11. But it’s qualified by the observation that although these are horrible atrocities, they are not unfamiliar.

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.

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

Most people don’t like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.

Talking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

I am desperate for change – now – not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

All things are only transitory.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

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.

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.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

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

So there’s nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who’s cool hates – and then making it cool.

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

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

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

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

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

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

Change alone is unchanging.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

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.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

Comedians are sociologists. We’re pointing out stuff that the general public doesn’t even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

Change in all things is sweet.

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

People only see what they are prepared to see.

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

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

I feel like I’m changing pop culture.

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

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

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