“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
“Look good because you want the world to look good.”
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
“You have a better chance of changing the world if your own house is in order; but, you can make an exception for the edge cases (e.g., Martin Luther King, Gandhi).”
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”
“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.”
“To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.”
“Whatever we see out there in the world is but a reflection of what is in there within our mind.”
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.”
“Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say 'yes' to life?”
“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching. Love like you'll never be hurt. Sing like there's nobody listening. And live like it's heaven on earth.”
“All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak and speak in such a way that people will remember it.”