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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.