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

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire but at the same time there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life of how things change how they're not the same ever again.

It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

God give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are and to make new things like them.

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

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better you have to take things into your own hands.

Things don't have to change the world to be important.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

If you don't like how things are change it! You're not a tree.

I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong and too pleasing.

If you realize that all things change there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying there is nothing you cannot achieve.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect change is the way to perfect them.

The more things change the more they are the same.

I don't know if you can change things but it's a drop in the ocean.

All things must change to something new to something strange.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.