And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.

Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!

There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.

Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.

It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future; and how we undermine it, today.

The key to your success in this world is to discover the field of your gifts

No father knows that he is carrying his son up the stairs for the final time

Well, sir, it is precisely my notion that one sees and learns most of all by observing our younger generations.

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.

You know what a cubicle basically says? It basically says, like, 'You know what? We don't think you're smart enough for an office, but we don't want you to look at anybody.

I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

Meditation is a glorious link to connect and harmonize the two ends of life - material and spiritual.

Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions.

Homosexuality is not a civil right. Its rise almost always is accompanied, as in the Weimar Republic, with a decay of society and a collapse of its basic cinder block, the family.