More important than what you did yesterday is what you do today.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

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

We are our choices.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Individuals are the sum of their unique experiences, challenges, and accomplishments. What matters is not the barriers they face, but how they choose to confront them. And their race is not to blame for everything—good or bad—that happens in their lives.

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

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

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.

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

Unsuccessful people make decisions based on current situations. Successful people make decisions based on where they want to be.

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.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do things, we can accomplish those goals.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.

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

You cannot make progress without making decisions.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others, than you can by what others say about him!

He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.

You have no idea what your legacy will be. Your legacy is what you do every day. Your legacy is every life you’ve touched, every person whose life was either moved or not. It’s every person you’ve harmed or helped. That’s your legacy.

No man will ever bring out the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.