No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.

To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.

Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one's hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.

But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

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

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how."

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.