The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predict upon.

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling to get adapted to my kind of fooling.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

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

You write in order to change the world…the world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimetre the way people look at reality, then you change it.

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

They [the Americans] have all a lively faith in the perfectibility of man, they judge that the diffusion of knowledge must necessarily be advantageous, and the consequences of ignorance fatal; they all consider society as a body in a state of improvement, humanity as a changing scene, in which nothing is, or ought to be, permanent; and they admit that what appears to them today to be good, may be superseded by something better tomorrow.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

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

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

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.

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.

I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely…for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.

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

Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.

One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.

Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live.