"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find how you yourself have altered."
Nelson Mandela (1918 - )

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
Barack Obama

"All appears to change when we change."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel

"Don't blow it - good planets are hard to find."
Quoted in Time

"The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come."
Lee Iacocca (1924 - )

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
Albert Einstein

"Never read a book through merely because you have begun it."
John Witherspoon (1723 - 1794)

"Rock bottom is good solid ground, and a dead end street is just a place to turn around."
Buddy Buie and J.R. Cobb, "Rock Bottom" (song)

"Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past."
Henry Ward Beecher

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out."
Art Linkletter

“It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured. I realised, somehow, through the screaming of my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness, I was still free: free to hate the men who were torturing me, or to forgive them. It doesn’t sound like much, I know. But in the flinch and bite of the chain, when it’s all you’ve got, that freedom is an universe of possibility. And the choice you make between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.”
Gregory David Roberts, The first para of his book "Shantaram"

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)

"Time does not change us. It just unfolds us."
Max Frisch

"We must become the change we want to see."
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)