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I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be new views.

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times -- and this is the worst of all -- before we have new ones.

The basic fact of today is the tremendous.

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear; keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

The one law that does not change is that everything changes, and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow, and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring.

Change is the law of life. Those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

The death of dogma is the birth of reality.

I have accepted fear as a part of life -- specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The most significant change in a person's life is a change of attitude. Right attitudes produce right actions.

Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.

To change one's life we must start immediately and do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.