It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does then only temporarily.
I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself not on the outside.
I don't have perfect teeth I'm not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn't want to change anything.
It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.
The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
Time heals griefs and quarrels for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
If a person doesn't change there's something really wrong with him.
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat or cure or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults and everyone sees them they change and everyone looks up to them.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances the seasons or the wind but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
He's computerized but I won't let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car.
I think it's particularly a distinctively American concept that resonates with American culture through biker culture. A motorcycle is an independent thing. You're like 'I don't want to ride in a car with this person. I want to be independent and ride by myself. But let's ride in a group. Let's be independent together.'
I can't find my car keys in the morning. Trying to get out of my house is a nightmare. 'Where's my wallet? Where are my keys? I have to go find a missing person.'
It's not just the kid who's spent every penny from his job to upgrade his car to tell the world he cares about sports cars it's also the person driving around in a fuel-conscious hybrid electric car because it's more a message to the world than an effective means of saving fuel to be quite honest.
Now personally I like a car with some sort of character.
I'm like 'Would you be the person in the room that would boo when Dylan went electric? I know I wouldn't. Or are you the person that left The Beatles after 'She Loves You ' or 'Drive My Car?' You weren't on board for 'Revolution 9' or 'Day In The Life ' were you?'
Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car or seeing yourself getting that job or seeing yourself excel seeing yourself help that person - that is faith.
A gun can be dangerous. But a gun can protect you you can hunt for food with it - you know the tool itself is a tool. The intention of the party using the tool is a part of the process right? You know: the knife cuts the steak stabs the person saves somebody from danger cuts somebody out of a car.
I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who had a car and who would be willing to do this.