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

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

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

Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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.

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.

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

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

I didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

We don’t mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

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

I believe growth should be constant, sustained and inclusive. It’s only meaningful if these three things are there. Otherwise they’re just economic figures.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

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

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

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.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

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.

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

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.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can’t move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

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.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

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.

There is no education like adversity.

It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

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.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

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.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.