Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.

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.

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.

Our life is just as long or short as our remembering: as rich as our imagining, as vibrant as our feeling, and as profound as our thinking.

A seed rises from dirt to prove to the world that its greatness lies not on what the world thinks of it, but from within.

There is no shortage of despicable law enforcement departments in the USA.

In one moment I was feeling everything and I was feeling nothing.

Anytime that the Arizona Cardinals play football, I scream at the top of my lungs at the television. And I have certain dances that I do.

Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?

You have to have a feeling for where you are. You've got only one life to live and you don't have to live it for six people. Pay attention to it.

I don't give up. I'm a plodder. People come and go, but I stay the course.

Except for the con men borrowing money they shouldn't get and the widows who have to visit with the handsome young men in the trust department, no sane person ever enjoyed visiting a bank.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.