If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.

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.

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

Your thoughts are more real than you are.

I do not adjust my standpoint to others expactations.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

Most of my cliches aren't original.

I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

Look: I am nothing. I do not even have ashes to rub into my eyes.

I have always had a tremendous amount of energy and any band I was ever in from the age of fourteen, I would always be the one who would describe the future and vibe everyone up.

I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.

If you say to one flower, 'Grow,' but you water another, the first one won't grow.