Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

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.

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.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Mature Christians daily recognize how short they fall in keeping God's law and realizes how desperately they needs God's grace.

I've always been like that

Amidst such Soulful freedom, Christmas is never hindered - but, freely embraced.

[On retirement savings:] Gone today, here tomorrow.

No work is "most important." Or, put differently, all work is important but work done poorly becomes most important.

Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I think I should have followed my instincts.

Imagine a world that seemed so much bigger than you. Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.

I don't like the vampire books. I don't like any of those.

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.