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

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.

The expansion of choice has become an explosion of choice.

What leads us astray is confusing more choices with more control. Because it is not clear that the more choices you have the more in control you feel. We have more choices than we've ever had before.

Joseph went from prison to prime minister from trials to triumph, from scar-weary to stardom

To show too much joy in a place such as this would be unseemly but, as he padded toward her, his tail was extended in a manner which would make wagging possible should all go as expected.

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

The melody is the most important thing that must stay in the minds of the people who listen to you. No matter how many notes you play, you can't let them forget what the song is.

The happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.

Google says young people don't care about privacy, but when asked if they'd let their parents see their phone bills and other stuff they say no.

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.