We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in it's all there at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire but at the same time there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life of how things change how they're not the same ever again.

My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.

Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight which I know something about.

Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds and I very rarely change it.

The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

For the past 33 years I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row I know I need to change something.

He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline forward down towards the bottom of the car.