...to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.

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.

Hardship is the hardest moment to soften the soul.

Should we still be friends when it could be more profitable if otherwise?

We do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if it is not granted to us and then we kneel and believe.

Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and exaggerate some one aspect of the tragic fact.

In life, the classroom is everywhere. The exam comes at the very end.

I never went to camp as a kid. I couldn't get into an Ivy League school. I wouldn't join a biker club.

Place principle above all else.

In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement.

Man as Atman is really free; as man he is bound, changed by every physical condition.

Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.