All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

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.

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

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

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

Change, But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed.

Change how you see and see how you change.

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.

To change your mind and to follow him who sets you straight is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

To offend a strong man, tell him a lie. To offend a weak man, tell him the truth.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: never lie to yourself.

There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.

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

And then she understood the devilish cunning of the enemies’ plan. By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.

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.