“Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.”

“You become what you surround yourself with. Energies are contagious. Choose carefully. Your environment will become you.”

“Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.”

“Men use care in purchasing a horse, and are neglectful in choosing friends.”

“Tell the world that we finally got it all right
I choose you
I will become yours and you will become mine
I choose you.”

“I am willing to put the case into any shape you choose.”

“Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's just something you are.”

“Do not choose for your wife any woman you would not choose for a friend if she were a man.”

“You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?”

“You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.”