Quotes about Choice

If your time is worth anything, travel by air. If not, you might just as well walk.

Each time we consider a miracle impossible, or assume that we ourselves are not capable of working it, then we're choosing not to take flight.

Because in my nature I have always run to pie, whilst in his nature he has always run to mystery.

Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him.

Why shouldn't we be honest and honorable, and lie every time we get a chance? That is to say, why shouldn't we be consistent, and either lie all the time or not at all?

It's the same here as it is on earth—you've got to earn a thing, square and honest, before you enjoy it.  You can't enjoy first and earn afterwards.  But there's this difference, here: you can choose your own occupation, and all the powers of heaven will be put forth to help you make a success of it, if you do your level best.  The shoe-maker on earth that had the soul of a poet in him won't have to make shoes here.

You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do.

All right, then, I'll go to hell"—and tore it up.

He would now have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

Time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.