Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.

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.

Depend upon it, he who wishes to win the prize must come on the principle that two and two make four.

She wished him at her side this very moment. If only to turn it all to rights by doing his very best to turn it all to ruin.

It is vanity to chase the whirlwind.

I'm going to deliver a detailed policy address on one of the greatest challenges facing our country today, illegal immigration.

I am a summer person.

I love touring - I don't do it as often as I should.

We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.

Even if you don't like guns and don't want to own them, you benefit from those who do.

Sharing an idea you care about is a generous way to change your world for the better.

I didnt grow up drawing runway models and deciding what they should wear.