No-one will be able to make us believe that man is a sublimated animal once we can show that within him there is a repressed angel.

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.

Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.

Maybe you are already lost and just do not know it.

Rebuilding is something that is practically difficult than starting over from nothing.

Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously to answer wisely to consider soberly and to decide impartially.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.

After high school I went to the San Francisco Art Institute, and I began a formalized art education where we went through the history of art but we also went through the art of my contemporaries.

...and horror of horrors, he realized that he was experiencing some sort of a crush. He needed to kill something.

Michael Jordan was a cultural icon that everybody on the playground wanted to be. The Bulls dynasty was a huge part of my childhood and it was the peak of my basketball interest as a kid.

Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India.