The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

Eventually, all companies are replaced.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

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.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

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

My experience is listen, see, feel – and then think about what you change.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

Whatever we believe about how we got to be the extraordinary creatures we are today is far less important than bringing our intellect to bear on how do we get together now around the world and get out of the mess that we’ve made. That’s the key thing now. Never mind how we got to be who we are.

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.

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

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

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

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

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.

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

I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.

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.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

I think the F2 tyres are probably one of the hardest things to adapt to, harder than the Formula One Pirellis were to get used to.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

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

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.