We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

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.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. All that is not a true change will disappear in the future society.

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

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.

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in which nothing is, or ought to be, permanent; and they admit that what appears to them today to be good, may be superseded by something better tomorrow.

Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fall, but because each time they fall they never fail to rise again.

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.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.

Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.