The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it."

"But it'd be there.

You may not be able to change the world, but you can always change somones world.

I don't think we are changing the world here, but we might be influencing a perspective.

Forging meaning is about changing yourself. Building identity is about changing the world.

Everyone must leave something behind when he dies . . . Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die . . . It doesn't matter what you do, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.