Quotes about Change

The course of life in unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance.

Laws change; people die; the land remains.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

"A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

Forget the past, and ask me what's next.

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

I hate when pastors have a gay son and then they become pro-gay.

People in both parties are restless for change, ready to break free of old patterns in Washington.

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.

It's not just about getting a song on the radio or appearing on television. It really is about helping people change their lives one day at a time.