Take change by the hand or it will seize you by the throat.

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

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.

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

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

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work. So most people don’t recognize them.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.

The obstacle in the path becomes that path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

Limitations are merely opportunities to grow. I use them as stepping stones to success.

If there is anything in the world a person should fight for, it is freedom to pursue his ideal, because in that is his great opportunity for self-expression, for the unfoldment of the greatest thing possible to him.