Quotes about Impact

When people meet me, I hope that they say this: 'This is a guy who, number one, loves the Lord, but he also loves people, and he wants to make a difference in people's life. And he wants to help everyone he comes in contact with, and he is genuine, he is real, and he cares about people.'

Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month or a year, but for all eternity — a very challenging and exciting thought for a mother.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

Is it clear why I have said that the American white man's malignant superiority complex has done him more harm than an invading army?

I could tell the impact of this upon them. They had been aware that the plight of the black man in America was bad, but they had not been aware that it was inhuman, that it was psychological castration.

People out for posthumous fame forget that the Generations To Come will be the same annoying people they know now.

In this infinity then what is the difference between him who lives three days and him who lives three generations? Always

When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been.

Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to land, where the notes are read and then possibly cherished, or else misinterpreted, or else understood all too well by those who hate the message. You never know who your readers might be.

Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don't consider that.

Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse, for some.

But maybe he was destructive by nature since he messed up every girl he touched.