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" Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society. "

Patrick J. Kennedy

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" Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences. "

" Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan. "

John C. Maxwell

" The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance. "

Nathaniel Branden

" It seems pretentious to assume that we are not creatures of action. I think often it takes a situation of extreme absurdity, extreme action, to push us to the limits of what our character is, and to change us as people. "

" Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. "

" Everything is a learning lesson, good and bad, so I am happy with the way things are, and I learned from everything negative. I am in a great space now, so I wouldn't change a thing! "

" Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have. "

" There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty. "

" What's dangerous is not to evolve. "

" The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. "

Charles Kettering

" The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost. "

" Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history. "

Patrick J. Kennedy

" Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit. "

Ivy Compton-Burnett

" I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past. "

" The only thing that will really change global warming in the long run is if we radically increase the speed with which we get alternative technologies to deal with climate change. "

" I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road. "

Stephen Hawking

" Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change. "

" In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change. "

" The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward. "

" Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable. "

" Without a struggle, there can be no progress. "

Frederick Douglass

" The older I get, the more I'm conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world. Tiny little things, but the world is made up of tiny matters, isn't it? "

Sandra Cisneros

" To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior. "

" People think that you have to do something huge, like go to Africa and build a school, but you can make a small change in a day. If you change Wednesday, then you change Thursday. Pretty soon it's a week, then a month, then a year. It's bite-size, as opposed to feeling like you have to turn your life inside out to make changes. "

" A zebra does not change its spots. "

" Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. "

Marcus Aurelius

" One thing I believe completely is that the human heart remains the human heart, no matter how our material circumstances change as we move together through time. "

Geraldine Brooks

" Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you'll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding. "