I am who I am today because of the choice I made yesterday.

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’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

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

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

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

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.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

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

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

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