The last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

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.

Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.

In this new, hyper competitive age, none of us, none of us can afford to be complacent.

I grew up in a slum neighborhood - rows of tenements, with stoops, and kids all over the street. It was a real neighborhood - we played kick-the-can and ring-a-levio.

I've always had an aversion to debt.

Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.

We continually want to unmask our heroes as if there were more to be learned from their nakedness than from their choice of clothing.

Getting older is not something that you're not much concerned with.

I am trying to be in that alchemical soup of human transformation. I am trying to process, reconcile, forgive, let go, and grieve, when necessary.

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew

It is wise to be sure, but otherwise to be too sure.