Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued

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.

I don't have many Russian friends. My childhood friends are dead - either from bad health, or they died in perestroika.

Even a smile is a good deed.

Pope John Paul II was unquestionably the most influential voice for morality and peace in the world during the last 100 years.

I like a girl who laughs a lot. That's my main thing.

Whatever you do in your daily life - driving from here to there, trying to reach someone on the phone, doing this or that - you always are going toward somewhere. That's inevitable.

It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.

It's always better to be doing.

Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.

It is well known that when Thomas A. Eddison was stymied by a problem, he would lie down and take a short nap.

I've noticed a pattern in stars that start acting out in public. Every one of them felt like they grew up without love.