Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

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 god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.

It won't take long before I explode with pent-up rage.

A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot.

There's this idea that somebody's job could be more important than somebody else's, and to me, that's not true.

Empathy zooms you in on an individual and, as a result, it's narrow, it's innumerate, it's racist, it's very biased.

Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word, slavery.

When I got to the senior national team, there was another Ronaldo, so they started calling me Ronaldinho because I was younger.