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

He not busy being born is busy dying.

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

I went from being the Terminator to being the governator.

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.

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

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

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?

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

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

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.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

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

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

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

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

So there’s nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who’s cool hates – and then making it cool.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

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.

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

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

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

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

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.

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.

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

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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

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.

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China’s behavior overnight.

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

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

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.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

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 the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

I love to watch times change!

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

Women feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It breaks boundaries, it’s liberating, and it’s empowering when you feel like, ‚Well, I can do that, too.‘

Of course, there is no question that Libya – and the world – will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

I liberate minds with my music. That’s more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

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.