Quotes about Autonomy

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.

There are no have-to's, just choices

The danger lies in the possibility that we will not accept the person as he is but try to make him over according to our own ideas.

We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a very real sense, by the time we are adult, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.

You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

I am glad that I am in a position to select scripts I would be comfortable working in.

Our destiny is largely in our hands.

I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.

While you have strong frames and robust constitutions, you have not the gift of intellect—you could not think for yourselves—you could not provide for yourselves—so the Lord in his infinite goodness has given you kind masters to think for you—[laughter].

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.