I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

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.

Music is stored in our long-term memory. When we learn something through music, we tend to remember it longer and believe it more deeply. Dr. Joyce Brothers

We restore order through the imagination. We restore hope over and over and over again ... .

I wish If you stayed much longer !

I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.

So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.

Sometimes when you have bipolar you have days you are grumpy and not feeling yourself.

If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?

With independents[films] you sort of make them on the go and there is that little bit more creative freedom. You don't have the money to slow down!

America's political system is superior to the crony corrupt corrupt capital system in Russia in every way.

Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!