If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

—W. Somerset Maugham

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

—W. Somerset Maugham

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

—W. Somerset Maugham

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.

—W. Somerset Maugham

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator and change has its enemies.

—Robert F. Kennedy

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

—Robert F. Kennedy

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

—Gordon Atkinson

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

—Ramsay Clark

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

—Nelson Mandela