"We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are." J.K. Rowling, author (b. 1965)

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

"Don't ask the barber whether you need a hair cut." Warren Buffett

"You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have." unknown

"It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable." Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990

"I am not what happened to me; I am what I choose to become." Carl Jung

"Between Stimulus and response, there's a space, in that space lies our power to choose our response, in our response lies our growth and our freedom." Victor Frankl

"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this:  To rise above the little things." John Burroughs

"When options are limited, focus becomes more likely." Robert Genn

"If you're not loving what you are doing, you're doing something wrong." Billy Joel

"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable." J. K. Galbraith, Letter to Kennedy, 1962

"Our theories determine what we measure." Albert Einstein

"The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are." John Pierpont Morgan

"Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace." Ronald Reagan

"When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it." Charles de Lint (Celtic folk musician and story teller, b.1951)

"I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him." Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)

"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for." Maureen Dowd, in 'New York Times'

“At the very least, experience furnishes the houses of our lives -- but we choose whether to live in them.” I. Marc Carlson

"I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day difficult."E.B. White

“Nobody can prevent you from choosing to be exceptional.” Mark Sanborn

“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.” Napoleon

“God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade.” Langenhoven

“It is our choices that show what we truly are far more than our abilities.” Professor Dumbledore (from Harry Potter)

“A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.” Thomas Carlyle, historian and essayist (1795-1881)

“No one ever ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.” Amar Gopal Bose, electrical engineer, inventor, founder Bose Corp. (1929- )

“The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.” David Russell

“There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.” Marcel Proust, novelist (1871-1922)

“The threads of circumstances that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure randomness of existence.” Nick Bantock

“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.” Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) French scientist and philosopher On Mind and On Style

“You don't get to control any outcome, only every choice you make along the way.” Stephen C. Paul (contemp.) psychologist, writer

“Choose well; your choice is brief and yet endless.” Ella Winter