When I wrote about the French Revolution, I didn't choose to write about aristocrats; I chose characters who began their lives in provincial obscurity.
The investment banks should either choose to be regulated as banks or should arrange to conduct their affairs to not require the stop-gap support of the Federal Reserve.
The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
If I didn't choose art, I would have become an astronomer.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.
We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance. If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you have Ali, then you have Babe Ruth, then you have Michael Jordan.
I can have as many bad days as anyone. But I choose to say, 'I'm just fine.'
There's so many ways to play a bad guy, and usually people choose the obvious one.
Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them.
When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.
We can be shiny and perfect and admired, or we can be real and honest and vulnerable and loved. But we actually do have to choose.
Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock of the American ideal: a strong, empowered and ever-growing middle class.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
