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

There is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

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

Change how you see and see how you change.

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.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If all people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.

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

True life is lived with tiny changes occur.

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.

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.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

Read, read, read. Never stop reading. And when you can't read anymore… write.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day; it helps. Then, when it gets finished, you are always surprised.

I kept always two books in my pocket: one to read, one to write in.