Quotes about Change

Lay a lost and delightful world, the world of my childhood, the world of sweet and irresponsible days at Qunu and Mqhekezweni. Now I was a man, and I would never again play thinti, or steal maize, or drink milk from a cow's udder.

A philosopher once noted that something is odd if a person is not liberal when he is young and conservative when he is old.

One of the most difficult things is not to change society — but to change yourself.

I was a hotheaded young man who attempted to make up for his ignorance with militancy.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.

When we were young we thought of old age as an ailment that affected only other people.

It is widely known, after all, that real life takes place in movement.

Reality has grown old and gone senile; after all, it is definitely subject to the same laws as every living organism—it ages.

Standing there on the embankment, staring into the current, I realized that — in spite of all the risks involved — a thing in motion will always be better than a thing at rest; that change will always be a nobler thing than permanence; that that which is static will degenerate and decay, turn to ash, while that which is in motion is able to last for all eternity.

I often crossed it inadvertently when out that way on my daily rounds. But I also liked to cross it on purpose, deliberately stepping to and fro. A dozen times, or several dozen times. I'd amuse myself like that for half an hour—playing the game of crossing the border. It gave me pleasure, because I could remember the time when it wasn't possible. I love crossing borders.