Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

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

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: ‚We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.‘

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

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

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

New roads; new ruts.

Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

I love to watch times change!

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 hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

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

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

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.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

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.

If you want to be a good strategist, you can never just go off a principle you read in a book. You need to adapt what you do to the situation; no rule of thumb is true all the time.

In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‚If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?‘ And whenever the answer has been ‚No‘ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it’s not like that.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

I can’t very well be teaching one way and living my life another way. What I do in life must be consistent with the things I say. And the same goes for you.

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

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.

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