Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

While we cannot predict the future, we will most surely live it. Every action and decision we take - or don't - ripples into the future. For the first time, we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct those ripples.

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We can't express ourselves emotionally, we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.

It is hard, I think, for a single person to grasp the weight of their own actions, to make sense of the ripples our every decision makes.

No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...

Our power lies in our small daily choices, one after another, to create eternal ripples of a life well lived.

I alone cannot change the world. But I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

A kind thought, word, or action creates infinite ripples of caring, consideration, and peace.

The only way God can strengthen his presence in our will is to weaken his presence in our feelings. Otherwise we would become spiritual cripples, unable to walk without emotional crutches. This is why he gives us dryness, sufferings, and failures.

Not all ripples leave footprints in the sand.

It's the same with people who say, 'Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger.' Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn't kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn't kill you makes you incredibly annoying.

Success is more dangerous than failure the ripples break over a wider coastline.

As long as you don't make waves ripples life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We can't express ourselves emotionally we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.