“You are your choices.”

Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

If you don’t know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.

No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.

Many things have fallen only to rise higher.

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.

God will never send anybody to hell. If man goes to hell, he goes by his own free choice.

Instead of getting married again, I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and give her a house.

Forgiveness is the choice to see people as they are now. When we’re mad at people, we’re angry because of something they said or did before this moment. By letting go of the past, we make room for miracles to replace our grievances.

The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.

The only way the past can drag you back is if you choose to bring it with you into the present.

Because I always have a choice, I choose love.

Become mindful that remaining in a conflict is a choice.

I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!