We had to learn...that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.

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 do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

fear doesn't listen to reason it takes it own counsel

The teaching goes on

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.

Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

My overall recommendation: for decades corporate policy manuals and HR departments have told people they are responsible for their own careers. It's about time people really heeded those warnings.

When all else fails, and to stand firm seems impossible, stand on the wood of the Cross; it will float with you.

I was a homely kid with freckles that came out every spring and stuck on me till Christmas.

The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.

I developed this guiding statement to stress on the fact that every good thing takes time to develop.