It said to me, 'I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.'

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.

...glass words for you, Beloved—rain beads from an abacus of pain...

If you are looking for an excuse to quit you will find it, but if you are looking for a reason to continue you must fight for it.

Universe is nothing, but human thought.

I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.

You know, comrade Pachman, I don't enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela.

Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the beauty is gone.

In Britain, the press want to kill a show by revealing what's coming up and spoiling the pleasure.

Anyone can write a specification, but if nobody implements it, what is it but a particularly dry form of science fiction.

I was in a band when I was 15. We were a glam band. Then I couldn't afford to buy makeup. At the time that was the thing.

I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.