If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction, and skillful execution; it represents the wide choice of many alternatives.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

This is the thing that I was born to do.

The generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

One love, one heart, one destiny.

There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly.

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.

I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.