Integrity involves change and adaptation without altering your values.

Most bold change is the result of a hundred thousand tiny changes that culminate in a bold product or procedure or structure.

The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that do.

Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

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

Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others—it only changes yours.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

The very key to our success has been our ability, foremost among nations, to preserve our lasting values by making change work for us rather than against us.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. All that is not a true change will disappear in the future society.

Perfect wisdom has four parts; Wisdom, the principle of doing things right. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a life.

It cannot be your duty to do anything that is beyond your reach or your strength at the moment. It cannot be your duty to do anything that sacrifices your own integrity or your own spiritual development.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights would be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence. . . . I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.

Values are related to our emotions, just as we practice physical hygiene to preserve our physical health, we need to observe emotional hygiene to preserve a healthy mind and attitudes.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.

Now if I carry out this oath, and break it not, may I gain forever reputation among all men for my life and for my art; but if I transgress it and forswear myself, may the opposite befall me.