We are free up to the point of choice, then the choice controls the chooser.

Have to and get to—both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.

Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

We don’t choose to be role models; we are chosen. Our only choice is whether to be a good role model or a bad one.

Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or good or joy worth having.

But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.