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

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.

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.

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.

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

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

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

When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed, my style changed.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

We are going to transform Britain’s rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you’ve lived a good life.

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?

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

I want to consistently play well and win titles. I’m only at the beginning.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

People can cry much easier than they can change.

The future will be better tomorrow.

The most propagandistic element of ‚Frozen‘ was the transformation of the prince at the beginning of the story, who was a perfectly good guy, into a villain with no character development whatsoever about three-quarters of the way to the ending.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

I probably work harder, putting in a lot of time and effort, than a lot of drivers because all I think about, and all I do, is to do with racing, trying to make myself a better driver.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

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

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

Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support – a significant problem in the software industry.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

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

One thing I’ve always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they’ll tell you, ‚We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.‘

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition – put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes – is improving because of innovation.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

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.

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

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.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

We welcome the scrutiny of the world – because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

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

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

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

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

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

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.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

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.

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

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.

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