Two roads diverged in a wood and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will sink out of sight.

Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

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.

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