What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

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

I’m not the most patient of people.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Eventually, all companies are replaced.

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that’s the way I am.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

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

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

There is nothing permanent except change.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

The redwood is the glory of the Coast Range. It extends along the western slope, in a nearly continuous belt about ten miles wide, from beyond the Oregon boundary to the south of Santa Cruz, a distance of nearly four hundred miles, and in massive, sustained grandeur and closeness of growth surpasses all the other timber woods of the world.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

My musical taste and image is going to change naturally. It’s not forced; I do what comes natural to me. Sometimes, I like to be dark… other times, I like to be really light and ladylike.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

New roads; new ruts.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

Talent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age.

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neither side completely lived up to their obligations. Clinton didn’t do what was promised, nor did North Korea, but they were making progress.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

I’m just like you – I want to be a good human being. I’m doing my best, and I’m working at it. And I’m trying to be a Christian. I’m always amazed when people walk up to me and say, ‚I’m a Christian.‘ I always think, ‚Already? You’ve already got it?‘ I’m working at it. And at my age, I’ll still be working at it at 96.

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

Without deviation progress is not possible.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.