Change is not a destination just as hope is not a strategy.

I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is it makes the series limited you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.

If you don't like the way the world is you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.

We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places in fact are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.

Styles like everything else change. Style doesn't.

I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts 'It's easier to change directions while you're still moving.' If you stop it's harder to get started again. I still don't think I made the wrong decision but he was right.

Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.

We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet we all know that life experiences do change us.

Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.

There are those people who are in your corner no matter what you can't do any wrong even when you do wrong. And then there are those people that no matter what you do they are going to dislike you and that's not going to change.

I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.

I'd say that after my father passed my writing changed it went deeper. Most would say 'matured' but I don't think I'd use that word in relation to my progress. I think 'change' is a little more accurate.

The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.

Sometimes when we are generous in small barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

You know Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories no sudden plot twists it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says the book won't change. It is written.

And I do believe that the way to change a society to uplift people - not just their spirit but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies which have been and still are hostile towards Islam.

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction you can change what's crushing you.

Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.

But I think it's more that when you're young you're invincible you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing to be honest.

Whoever is content with the world and who profits from its lack of justice does not want to change it.