It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.

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.

To dream only of what is ‘possible’ is to be fooled into believing that one is dreaming in the first place.

Wisdom is the highest strength

Sometimes people don't get sick from bacteria or a virus- -living organisms alien to the human body- -but from the human brain itself. Our brains can be our worst enemy, our cruelest opponent.

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.

I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has.

White must be the lightest color in a picture.

The heart does heal and you will love like this again- except when you do, you'll deny that you ever loved like this before.

Nurses quietly go about their work in a noble profession, uncelebrated soldiers toiling through the days and nights in service to the sick, the injured and the dying.

Not a man to mince words. People, yes. But not words.