Change how you see and see how you change.

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

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in which nothing is, or ought to be, permanent; and they admit that what appears to them today to be good, may be superseded by something better tomorrow.

Have to and get to—both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.

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.

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

Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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