“We do not choose our concerns.”

“We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.”

“Our brains are […] not equipped to process events on the geologic scale—at least in reference to how we choose to live, or what we choose to do in the here-and-now.”

“Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.”

“We are free to choose our actions,… but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.”

“The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us.”

“We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.”

“If we choose, we can use genetic engineering to alter the character of our offspring. …the motivation to do this will eventually become overwhelming.”

“We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.”

“Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose
the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution,
but more usually
we must do battle where we are standing.”