“No matter where you are in life . . . [y]ou always have a choice and the choice can be power.”

We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.

Courage is holding on one minute longer than everyone else. Courage is stepping forward when every fiber of your being says step back.

It is to believe in the perverseness of the universe, that even if I do well, something I don’t know about will get in the way, sabotage me, or get me in the end.

When we doubt, our self-talk sounds like this: ‘I don’t think I can. I don’t think I will.’… To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome.

Both parties make decisions and choices based on what is right, what is best, what is valued most highly.

Courage is being willing to do the impossible because it is the right thing to do.

I will offer a choice, not an echo.

Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.

Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.

Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.

I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.

Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.