Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.

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.

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

What others think about you is none of your business.

The more we idealized the past, however, and refuse to acknowledge or childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.

The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.

No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.

Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ.

Anyone who wants to pretend that your Huntington's disease is an invention is someone who does not have your best interests at heart.

Seeing your work on the wall is like the ultimate thing that can happen.

The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping shallots.