“Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, we are always free to choose our thoughts.”

I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.

A human being is a deciding being.

Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.

Success is total self-acceptance.

Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.

Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be.

For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.

No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.

Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.

The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.

When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.

What is to give light must endure burning.

The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.

Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.

They will remain strangers despite sitting face-to-face

I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it.

Death separates, but it also unites. It reunites whom it separates.

Or when an old relationship deepens into friendship, or when one finds an old friendship intact despite the passage of years and many absences.

We therefore must keep the faith, despite the defeat of policies, because men pass with their policies whilst generations follow each other.

All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what’s inside of all of us.

Despite the great advantages of digital video and the great ease of using the medium, still those who use it have first to understand the sensitivities of how to best use the medium.

Despite all of your mistakes, I stayed – and that was mine.