Quotes about Change

We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace.

The best minds are not in government.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

No government has ever voluntarily reduced itself in size—and that, in a way, became my theme.

If I could be elected president, I wanted to do what I could to bring about a spiritual revival in America.

IF I'D GOTTEN THE JOB I WANTED at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois. I've often wondered at how lives are shaped by what seem like small and inconsequential events, how an apparently random turn in the road can lead you a long way from where you intended to go—and a long way from wherever you expected to go.

The past is what the present is doing now.

for our times are not satisfied with faith and not even with the miracle of changing water into wine - they 'go right on,' changing wine into water.

By comparison with a passionate age, an age without passion gains in scope what is loses in intensity .

Only the lower natures forget themselves and become something new. For instance, the butterfly has entirely forgotten that it was a caterpillar; perhaps in turn it can forget that it was a butterfly so completely that it can become a fish. The

However, a self, every instant it exists, is in process of becoming, for the self [potentially] does not actually exist, it is only that which it is to become. In so far as the self does not become itself, it is not its own self; but not to be one's own self is despair.

repentance and remorse. The one calls us forward.