What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.
Courage is not always about action. It takes courage to do nothing rather than do something that you do not believe in or understand.
Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.
There is no better gift a society can give children than the opportunity to grow up safe and free - the chance to pursue whatever dreams they may have.
Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.
The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.
It's indeed surprising that replacing the elementary particle with a string leads to such a big change in things. I'm tempted to say that it has to do with the fuzziness it introduces.
The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.
Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requires change.
I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.
They've been fairly positive, as firm as they could be in regards to the derivatives operations in Montreal. We didn't sense that there was a hesitation about it. But things change.
Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.
Climate change is analogous to Lincoln and slavery or Churchill and Nazism: it's not the kind of thing where you can compromise.
People are seeing the impact of climate change around them in extraordinary patterns of floods and droughts, wildfires, heatwaves and powerful storms.
In Christian terms, evangelization and humanization are not alternatives. Nor are the 'vertical dimension' of faith and the 'horizontal dimension' of love for one's neighbor and political change.
Personal, inner change without a change in circumstances and structures is an idealist illusion, as though man were only a soul and not a body as well.
A lot of people are in politics to make friends, too, instead of making positive change. They're worried about getting re-elected.
Philosophies change by the day while God never changes, simply because, being perfect, He does not have to change!
The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change in its surface layer.
We have to have a combination of general relativity that describes the warping of space and time, and quantum physics, which describes the uncertainties in that warping and how they change.
