We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.

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.

I personally believe this: We have only today

Life is a voyage across troubled waters where our days are often spent clinging to the top of the highest mast, scouting for a comforting glimpse of shore.

The pathways into Sufic thinking are, it is traditionally said, almost as varied as the number of Sufis in existence.

There is one unalterable difference between a soldier and a civilian: the civilian never does more than he is paid to do.

As the art world changes, artists have more and more responsibility. You don't have a lot of luxury to be super secluded.

Education is too important to be left solely to educators.

It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.

I see that a lot in my own life and in the lives of others.Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God?

By the time you are 88 years old, you "have consumed 300 tons of food, air and water."

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.