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.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

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

I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

I live in a crazy time.

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

I don’t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I’m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic.

Ultimately this issue is on us. We’re the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a ‚should‘ involved, and this cannot be worked out from, ‚If I do this, what will happen?‘ alone.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Money does not change people, people change.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

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

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

The common question that gets asked in business is, ‚why?‘ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‚why not?‘

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

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

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

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

Last year we said, ‚Things can’t go on like this‘, and they didn’t, they got worse.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

I’ll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

I’m trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.

I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

We spend so much time sublimatin‘, thinkin‘ about, ‚What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?‘

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.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

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

It isn’t generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn’t generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it’s in the nature of hierarchy.