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

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

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

There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

‚Hope and change‘ has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American could hope for change from what God has blessed.

I love New York. I’m a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Change in all things is sweet.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

I’m never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.

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.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

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

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Music can change the world because it can change people.