When we are no longer able to change a situation - just think of an incurable disease such as an inoperable cancer - we are challenged to change ourselves.

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.

There I lay, wearing dead people as armor against death.

If you find a need, fulfill the gap.

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected.

It's better to have 100 people love you than to have 1,000,000 people like you.

I can see both sides of term limits, and I think, in different positions, term limits make more sense than in some others.

Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.

I know it is never a good idea to not be comfortable.

Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.

You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.