“If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.”

“Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.”

“If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.”

“I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.”

“I wonder if it hurts to live,
And if they have to try,
And whether, could they choose between,
They would not rather die.”

“Then I choose to drown. In hope. Rather than float into nothing.”

“The answer is no, I would rather marry the Demon King himself than marry you. I
suggest you look elsewhere for a bride. And heaven help the one you choose.”

“I never had to choose my subject- my subject rather chose me.”

“I don't think that anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile”

“If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.”