Who you decide to be today will determine your tomorrow.

We acquire a particular quality by acting in a particular way.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

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

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

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.

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.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Fundamentally, there are only to ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion — the technique of the army and the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation — the technique of the marketplace.

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

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

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.

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.

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

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

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.

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.

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

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.