Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling to get adapted to my kind of fooling.

No man can afford to express, through words and acts, that which is not in harmony with his own beliefs, and if he does so, he may pay by the loss of his ability to influence others.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

Do not hide your faith and your beliefs under a bushel basket, especially in this world that seems to have gone mad with political correctness.

Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

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

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

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.

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

You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

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.

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.

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.

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

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

The world is a comedy to those that think, and a tragedy to those that feel.

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.