Quotes About Transformation

There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.

The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop.

Appreciation is yeast, lifting ordinary to extraordinary.

Before I was a genius I was a drudge.

Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

Acting can work a peculiar magic on the actor ... it can cure you (at least for the length of a performance) of a whole variety of ailments. Migraine headaches, miserable colds or toothaches will suddenly disappear as you're up there going through your paces.

Growth is not concerned with itself.

We have a tried and tested system of government that, in being so flexible, exists as a great ghost that no one has dared to conjure into flesh.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.

The biggest dog has been a pup.

The fox changes his skin but not his habits.

Man is preceded by forest followed by desert.

What you become is what counts.

Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.

In essence, the renaissance is simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; but he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

To be reborn is a constantly recurring human need.

The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be - But when he got well, a wolf once more was he.

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.