It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.

Climate change is a terrible problem and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.

Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may by change of circumstances become his own.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events and in the total, of all those acts, will be written the history of this generation.

They always say time changes things but you actually have to change them yourself.

I want to change things for the better just like everybody else.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter but characters are only developed.

In order to change the world you have to get your head together first.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence, but we thought if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.

In Britain like most of the developed world stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.