I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose:though not always what I pleased.

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

If you can't do what you want, do what you can.

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehe…

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

We can see that in putting the question 'what is man?' what we mean is: what can man become? That is, can man dominate his own destiny, can he 'make himself,' …

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, an…