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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

I think the whole thing, boy band, it's a little bit of a dirty word. They say it's not a good thing to be in a boy band. We want to change that. We want to make the boy band cool. It's not just about dancing and dressing the same.

The question is the propriety of how we go about influencing and changing behavior.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life may have plans that will completely overthrow your pettiness.

One man with courage makes a majority.

Men fight and lose the battle, and the thing they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it turns out to be not what they meant, other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.

The Mohammadan conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precarious thing, whose delicate complex of order and liberty, culture and peace may at any time be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

The earth always belongs to the living.

… loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.

Some men see things as they are and say “Why?” I dream things that never were and say, “Why not?”

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

In youth one believes in democracy, later on, one has to accept it.

Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing but fear. Passion has helped souls rise from the ashes of their horrible lives and build something better, stronger, more beautiful.

My eyes already touch the sunny hill. Going far ahead of the road I have begun. So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp; it has inner light, even from a distance- and charges us, even if we do not reach it, into something else, which, hardly sensing it, we already are; a gesture waves us on answering our own wave... but what we feel is the wind in our faces.

If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won't change the inevitable; but we will change ourselves. I know. I have tried it. I once refused to accept an inevitable situation with which I was confronted. I played the fool and railed against it, and rebelled. I turned my nights into hells of insomnia. I brought upon myself everything I didn't want. Finally, after a year of self-torture, I had to accept what I knew from the outset I couldn't possible alter.

Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!

Sometimes the things that seem to be adversities turn out to be opportunities in disguise.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently and for the same reason.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember these two points: first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle, and that it signifies not whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time; second, that the longest lived and the shortest lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

If the facts change, I’ll change my opinion. What do you do, Sir?

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.