“If you wish to transform, pretend this day until it is so.”

“We would rather be ruined than changedWe would rather die in our dreadThan climb the cross of the momentAnd let our illusions die.”

“Fair as the moon and joyful as the light;Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright;Not as she is, but as she fills his dreams.”

“Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you’d like to act.”

“Love without hope will not survive.Love without faith changes nothing.Love gives power to hope and faith.”

“Love is like dried flowers sometimes. Even though you watch the petals shrink and change colour, you cannot help treasuring them”

“Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.”

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”

“If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.”

“I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.”(Victory Speech, Nov. 7, 2012)”

“I give you this to take with you:Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you canbegin again, with pure joy in the uprooting.”

“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”

“What brought you prosperity was not to expect symbolic moments, but to take action when it was necessary.”

“The problem is that the desire to change is fundamentally a form of aggression toward yourself. The other problem is that our hang-ups, unfortunately or fortunately, contain our wealth. Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom.”

“God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, Courage to change the things which should be changed, and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.”