You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

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

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

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, buy you will never imprison my mind.

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

I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.

Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

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

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.

The resources, advantages, and the powers of the American people are very great, and they have, consequently, succeed to equally great responsibilities.

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

I never encounter anything except my responsibility.

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it continues the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not to waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.

I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.