To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

What was God doing before the divine creation?

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

It’s kind of a weird process being pitched by the company you’re already with.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.

Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

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

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

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.

Revolutions go not backward.

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

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

To create something you must be something.

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.

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.

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.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

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

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

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

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

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.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

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

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

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

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

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

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

I create stars.

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

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

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.

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

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