“No, we have not destroyed it. Let it sit. We cannot change its fate.”

“Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.”

“You gotta make a change. Its time for us as a people to start making some changes, lets change the way we eat, lets change the way we live, and lets change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn't working so its on us, to do what we gotta do to survive.”

“We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.”

“We cannot let the bogeyman of al-Qaida and extremism be used to stall historic change in our country”

“We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.”

“It is not possible to remake this country, to democratize it, humanize it, make it serious, as long as we have teenagers killing people for play and offending life, destroying the dream, and making love unviable. If education alone cannot transform society, without it society cannot change either.”

“We cannot change, we cannot move away from what we are, until we thoroughly accept what we are. Then change seems to come about almost unnoticed.”

“I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change.”

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”