The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I’m someone else.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

When God sneezed, I didn’t know what to say.

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

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.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

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.

In two decades I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

I don’t think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

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

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

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.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

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?

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

I was a thug.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires. The most dangerous types are those who repress their desires or deny the existence of them, often acting them out in the most underhanded ways.

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

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I’m not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

Most people don’t like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

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

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

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

Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I’d be the chief minister.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

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.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

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

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

I went from being the Terminator to being the governator.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the tall, rangy, good-looking professor that many of the girls at Spelman swooned over.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.