Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.

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.

your lack of hard work fails your destiny and not the destiny fails you.

Humans and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. With aliens, that has to go double.

Tears are the safety value of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it .

The only countries that are outside of [ Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty] are Israel, Pakistan, India, and North Korea withdrew in the last few years.

I mean, I am still such the-good-girl. I want everybody to like me. I want everybody to be happy.

I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.

I mean, it's not important what kind of pants you wear; it's how you wear them.

Don't pretend to be what you are not. Don't refuse to be what you are.

Sin endeavors to subject the blessed God to the humor and lust of every person in the world

But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.