Change yourself and fortune will change.

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

Change how you see and see how you change.

I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.

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in which nothing is, or ought to be, permanent; and they admit that what appears to them today to be good, may be superseded by something better tomorrow.

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.

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

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

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.

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

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Man is neither angel nor beast; and the misfortune is that he who would act the angel acts the beast.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

The whole universe is contained within a single human being—you.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

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.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.