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

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

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

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.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

-- Steve Jobs

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

-- Bertrand Russell

If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few.

-- Gustav Klimt

To create original products, you need an environment where original people can operate freely.

-- Masaru Ibuka

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.

-- Benedictus de Spinoza

I arrange my subject as I want, then I begin to paint it like a child.

-- Pierre-Auguste Renoir