Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

I never had a speech from my father ‚this is what you must do or shouldn’t do‘ but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn’t perfect.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.

And in real life endings aren’t always neat, whether they’re happy endings, or whether they’re sad endings.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

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.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn’t be human without narrative fiction.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

It’s nice to be included in people’s fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.

Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

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.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

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.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

Once you feel loved by the universe, you’re already accepted, and you’re not really concerned about offending people.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.

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.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.