J. Michael Straczynski Quotes

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

The cynic says, 'One man can't do anything.' I say, 'Only one man can do anything.'

Whatever can be done in this world will be done. The only question is whether it will be done by you or to you.

You don't have to be one of those people that accepts things as they are. Every day, take responsibility for changing them right where you are.

You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.

If I'm not doing anything to make a change, then I'm responsible.

Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it.

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

The world is in your hands, now use it.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

The thing that always strikes me is how much power one person has. Everybody has so much power to help and to change if they just exercise it and get after it.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it.

We are what we make.

We have to choose every day to be active participants. To wake up in the morning and choose this life and make something of it is an incredible thing. Not many living creatures have that option. We have so many opportunities and options - it's a huge burden, but it's also the most freeing part of our lives.

Look, you deal with the choices you are confronted with.

We do have the power to kind of make this world what we want it to be. But we have to just choose to do it ourselves and not wait for someone else.

We create our own destiny.

The future is in our hands; we are masters of our own destiny.

Nothing happens until you decide.

So our future is in our own hands. What greater free will do we need?

The world doesn’t need another opinion, they need another person taking action. So I take action because I see the call and respond.