People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

---

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

---

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

---

When I wrote 'The Shadow Thief,' I had an obsession with Peter Pan. I get focused on things. In fact, I was an absolute horror to live with at that stage. I had a big fight with my mum because I wanted her to change the windows so Peter Pan could visit me. - Alexandra Adornetto

---

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

---

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

---

It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change ― Miles Davis

---

So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.

---

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

---

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go. _ Jim Rohn

---