At Kobe, whither I fled from Hong Kong, I took a step of great importance. I cut off my cue, which had been growing all my life.
What one thing can you start counting today that will actually be meaningful in your life?
What we're doing here will send a giant ripple through the universe.
Each shot is important.
That's what it's all about at the end of the day. What can you do? What difference can you make in the world?
Each implementation of human effort, however minute the overall result may be, is summed up in the gesture of the sower - sometimes an awe-inspiring gesture.
It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.
I want to put a ding in the universe.
I think that if you're doing something that's important, that's significant in your life, it takes some of the pain away.
Very few people on earth ever get to say: 'I am doing, right now, the most important thing I could possibly be doing.' If you'll join this fight that's what you'll get to say
When one is altering the face of the universe one cannot remember small helpful acts.
The first step toward success will be the biggest one.
People understand we're on the doorstep of doing something really historic that will help the American people and strengthen our country for the long run.
Having a bunch of medals and badges doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve achieved anything, you’ve got to do something beyond yourself to make a difference in life. Seek to be consequential in whatever you do.
What you do is take the power [popularity] gives you - which is very temporary and minor but significant - and use it. The danger is that you use it on a vanity project that no one wants to watch.
I don't like to do small things. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to really make an impact.
You either make history or you don't.
I want to leave this earth knowing that I did something. I made a difference in someone's life.
By your hand, millions - billions - of lives will be altered, caught up in a chain of events begun by you this day.
For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very uneasy about the fact that all I did was write in a situation as desperate as apartheid South Africa. Whether I was correct or not is a different issue.
My actions speak harder than words.
I have always been interested in health care and doing something that is dramatic.
