Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness.

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

The first thing we can say of life is that it is a nexus.

-- Wilhelm Dilthey

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

-- Hannah Arendt

The meaning of a word is its use in the language.

-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

-- Viktor Frankl

Blow up Mikuni Pass with dynamite and no more snow will fall on Echigo; haul the rock into the Sea of Japan and Sado Island becomes part of the mainland.

-- Kakuei Tanaka

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

-- Jawaharlal Nehru