Revolutions go not backward.

All things are only transitory.

For Africa to move forward, you’ve really got to get rid of malaria.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

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 don’t think any country is perfect. It’s our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don’t like. I think that’s part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

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

Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s more than that. It’s essential for your children and your children’s children.

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

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

You can’t do something forever.

The name Zahra was to have been lman’s own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

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.

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

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Being a kid’s not easy. You’re transforming and becoming a human being. At some point, you have everyone taking care of you, and then, all of a sudden, you’re out in the world.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

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

Change in all things is sweet.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

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

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

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

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

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

Through every victory and every setback, I’ve insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn’t meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Africa will thrive.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

Some of the generals are saying, ‚We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.‘ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

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.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

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

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

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

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

With Kansas, I had a four-year deal. The initial two months were real tough. I had to adjust a lot. Then, things started looking up.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

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.

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.