It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.

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'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you happy?

I shall overcome any obscuration.

Love knows not distance it hath no continent its eyes are for the stars.

The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.

The most important thing that each of us can do is to try even harder to see the world through our neighbor's eyes.

Age doesn't matter, unless your cheese.

I am one of the few actresses who isn't recognized by the way she looks. I'm recognized by the way I talk

What you already know is merely a good departure point.

I don't approach a role by saying I'll be unsavory or unlikable.