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

“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.”

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

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

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

“We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.”

“We do not choose our concerns.”

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

“The thing about fate, Magnus: even if we can't change the big picture, our choices can alter the details. That's how we rebel against destiny, how we make our mark. What will you choose to do?”

“Where we choose to be, where we choose to be--we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines our being.”