Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

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’d kill for you, Tess. I have killed for you. Don’t undermine me by fearing others. Fear me. Let me rule you!

If love isn't there, nothing will grow. If it is, there is always hope and it will win in the end. Love is vital and sacrosanct.

I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.

There is an inverse correlation between the cleanliness of a bathroom and my 3-year-old daughter's need to move her bowels.

Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.

I have to defend my husband.

The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.

Even among the angels, there is the sadness of division.

Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.

The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is to help people to live their lives.