Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.

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.

All politicians are said to be thieves but all thieves are not politicians which implies that some thieves do have a conscience.

When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.

Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices that we assume to be actuality.

Say what you want about America - thirteen bucks can still get you a hell of a lot of mice!

Live shows are fun - sometimes. But you have to practice for months on end.

I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.

I think it would be great for the Academy to recognize old age.

Majority doesn't rule. One person can change the history of the world.

In New York, the principal leisure activity is internal bleeding.

You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility.