“Bright lights cast dark shadows when shone from only one direction.”
“Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.”
“When yu’ can’t have what you choose, yu’ just choose what you have.”
“We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.”
“No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.”
“I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.”
“It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.”
“When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice.”
“Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.”
“Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.”
“Even as a tortoise draws in its limbs, the wise can draw in their senses at will.”
“Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.”
“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.”
“All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.”
“Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.”
“We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.”
“What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.”
“If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.”
“You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning back.”
“Whenever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven't tried before.”
“The world isn't interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship.”
“A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.”
“He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.”
“In the choice between changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.”
“When a defining moment comes along, you can do one of two things. Define the moment, or let the moment define you.”
“Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.”
“People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be -- whether they will admit that or not.”
“I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.”
“You can choose to be lazy or you can choose to be ambitious. Stop to think about it again. Don't you do your own choosing?”
“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.”