You can't make yourself fall in love, just as you can't choose who you fall in love with.
I choose work with the people I like to work with.
I don't always choose to stay fit by playing tennis, because that comes with its own wear-and-tear.
It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.
Democracy was the right of the people to choose their own tyrant.
You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.
If you choose to criticize, you choose your enemies.
[Diversity] is the future. You can't stop it. It's going where it's going, so I choose to be with the future.
When I choose to smile I become the master of my emotions.
Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is
Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
I have to say that it's a weird feeling to have to respond to a Christian leader of an anti-Muslims organisation - it would be like having to respond to a Muslim leader of an anti-Jewish organisation about Judaism so the whole thing is kind of weird. Let me just say it's kind of convenient to simply pick and choose whatever violent bits and pieces one finds in the Koran and ignore the equally important versus that talk about compassion and peace.
I didn't choose poetry: poetry chose me.
The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose and for someone else to pay when things go wrong.
If a great opportunity arises, you can't say no. But you do have to pick and choose a little more.
You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions and you have to be able to do it cheaply if you want people to choose that approach.
Build confidence and momentum with each good decision you make from here on out and choose to be inspired.
I tell students that even if they don't like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career, but that also builds self-confidence, no matter what they choose to do with their lives.
A strong marriage requires two people who choose to love each other even on those days when they struggle to like each other.
No matter what I choose to become, I believe I can change the world. And as I am striving to change the world, I will be happy.