“It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.” 

“Tragedy always brings about radical change in our lives, a change that is associated with the same principle: loss. When faced by any loss, there’s no point in trying to recover what has been; it’s best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new.” 

“Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson.” –

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world

For changes to be of any true value, they’ve got to be lasting and consistent

By changing nothing, nothing changes.

Change is inevitable. Progress is optional.

If you believe you can change the world, which I hope you do, do what you believe is right and expect resistance and expect attackers.

I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that's it. The lifestyle doesn't change.

If we are humble, nothing will change us, neither praise, nor discouragement

I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things

“I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!” 

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.

There are those who say that poets should use her and his art to change the world. I'd agree with that, but I think everybody should do that. I think the chef and the baker and the candlestick maker - I think everybody should be hoping to make it a better world.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

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

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

The persecution of any minority is inhuman and unnatural. That belief is timeless and beyond change.