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

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

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.

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

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

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.

I know Gov. Christie. We’ve met a couple of times.

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

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

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

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.

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

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.

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

I love to watch times change!

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.

Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world – not to win them, but to be like them.

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

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.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut – he’s my literary hero. I got to meet him several times, which was a great thrill for me. I don’t really remember what we talked about.

No one can say, ‚I have dropped out – I am no longer in the system.‘ When you’re in prison, you’re even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don’t transform the system as an absolute thing.

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

I can’t think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there’s been a reaction, there’s been no journalism. It’s cause and effect.

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

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

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It’s not like an action star.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

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

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.

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.

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.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

One reason I don’t want to play in England again is because we don’t have any personalities.

We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

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

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.

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

If I go to Italy, I will certainly request to meet with Pope Francis, whom I admire very much.

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

I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.

I never wanted to be Marilyn – it just happened. Marilyn’s like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

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

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.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.