“I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“I am not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. I'm going to take a stand. I'm going to defend it. Right or wrong, I'm going to defend it.”— Alan Ruck, imdb.com
“Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the 'Funky Chicken' on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance, so ar…”— Baz Luhrmann, amazon.com
“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.”— Paulo Coelho, paulocoelhoblog.com
“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”— J.K. Rowling, goodreads.com