You know if they said kindness or funniness was really most important to them then they will be more likely to say yes to the person that they thought was kind and funny.

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.

Without the dark side you would never see the light side of the stars

A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.

There are always periodic opportunities to give up, while every single moment is an opportunity to persevere.

Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.

One of the characteristics of the young is "I want it now."

Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon.

The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.

I think of the words of the prophet . . . : And now, after the many testimonies which have been given of Him, this is the testimony, last of all, that we give of Him: That He lives.

I was a super shy, shy kid, so that was kind of my way of expressing myself - to mimic what I saw on TV. I was a bit of a weird kid, but luckily my parents encouraged it.

Express your most powerful thought in the shortest sentence.