If you treat people to a vision of themselves, if you apparently overrate them, you make them become what they are capable of becoming.

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.

Confident people generally handle people with respect, compassion and integrity.

As we review our worries, we should make it a habit each day to God, "what is it I should focus on today"?

You know we're all going in the same direction or at least trying to. So we need to live together get along together and give each other enough space to be comfortable on that road.

I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.

During my time as England captain I have always been both helpful and direct in my communications with the ECB.

These were people... who built redwood decks on their mobile homes and have no idea that smart-aleck Yankees think that is somehow funny. People of the pines. My people.

Independent artists and labels have always been the trendsetters in music and the music business.

It's the first time it's happened to me and maybe the last. It's a strange sensation, not normal for me. I can't remember scoring three goals, even when I was a kid.