Now to what...? How we teach people to make choices and the things they're going to make choices over - that is culturally learned.

When we speak of choice, what we mean is the ability to exercise control over ourselves and our environment. In order to choose, we must first perceive that control is possible.

We have the ability to create choice by altering our interpretations of the world.

In order to 'hold fast' to something, one must allow oneself to be held to something. That commitment may be one of the hardest things to practice in a world of so much choice.

Choice is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow.

Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing.

The key to getting the most from choice is to be choosy about choosing.

The typical American reports making about 70 [choices] in a typical day.

I pick what are my priorities and I limit those priorities to less than five in my life and really in those particular areas put in the energy to try to make good choices.

Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves.

The expansion of choice has become an explosion of choice.

One who never anticipates deceit or expects duplicity, and yet is the first to recognize such things – is that not a sage indeed?

Never be afraid of the dark side of Vegas, the side the neon and glitter never seem to touch..

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference by philosophy and by religion.

I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me.

I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.

At the end of the day, I let myself have a glass of wine.

While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.

I play into the perception of me, but it's not really me.

I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.

If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness.