Bear, do not blame, what cannot be changed.

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.

Reality doesn't go away when it is ignored.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.

I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

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.

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

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

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

Change how you see and see how you 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.

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

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

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.