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

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?

I think that there’s no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It’s embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

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

When you’re outside, and everything is highland, it’s like nature has its own sound, and that’s one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

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.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

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.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.

There is nothing so stable as change.

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Don’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.