Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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in which nothing is, or ought to be, permanent; and they admit that what appears to them today to be good, may be superseded by something better tomorrow.

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

True life is lived with tiny changes occur.

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

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

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

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

We are free up to the point of choice, then the choice controls the chooser.

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Never be bored, and you will never be boring.

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.

I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Life is short. Time is fast. No replay, no rewind. Enjoy every moment as it comes.

If I had to define life in a word, it would be: Life is creation.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.

Perfect wisdom has four parts; Wisdom, the principle of doing things right. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default; by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

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.

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Racial discrimination is not a permissible solution... that can only weaken the principle of equality embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the Equal Protection Clause.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.