Change

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.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions, they will be moved to act.

Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

Let them eat cake.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Pessimism is a strategy for seeing the future as fixed.

You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favorite football team.

The smart thing in the arts is to be other than yourself, because if you’re always trying to improve on your own qualities, you’re in danger of becoming limited.

I like flawed characters very much.