It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

It is tragic that people who are incarcerated are unable to vote. They are probably the most important voices to listen to because they can tell us what we need to change.

Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed the capacity is in future shock.

That's the thing about interviews at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.

There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.

This great though disastrous culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.

There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear Unhappiness remembering happiness.

No nothing has changed in my life at all and nothing would change if I had millions.

I wouldn't change a thing - except my bank balance.

I want to be able to look back and say 'I've done everything I can and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.

People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer which everyone will at some point.

I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job and is trying to figure out how her local bank can change the terms on her credit card and I heard from a physicist at a major research university who wants to explain a better theory of financial stress tests.

I do believe sadly it's going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe.

It's important to fall in love with someone you don't want to change.

As far as I'm aware everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.

I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.

People feel that the EU is a one-way process a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change.

Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.

Any form of art is a form of power it has impact it can affect change - it can not only move us it makes us move.

We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.

I have to say you know I've seen so many people go through the cycle and become famous and not famous anymore and you know want - have their priorities change and want different things.

Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship you are very much in love with someone but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.

Fame changes a lot of things but it can't change a lightbulb.