If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.

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.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved

You're off the edge of the map, mate. Here there be monsters.

Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.

I'm pretty much the one that goes to the mound.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

Sold my soul to Satan. I've been dancing with the devil. So when you get to hell you can say you know me. I'm easily attracted by the dark side. Devil keep following.

Dissent is the mark of freedom, as originality is the mark of independence of mind. … No one can be a scientist … if he does not have independence of observation and of thought.

Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.