“There is no joy in man's own doings and choosings.”

“A man should have the right to choose his own shoes.”

“Let every man choose his own guardian and guide.”

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

“If there was anything I'd learned, it's that the man never chooses the woman. All he can do is give her an opportunity to choose him.”

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”

“The reward of joy is joy itself; not for its own sake; but for the sake of others.”

“Poland understands as few other nations do that every nation must be free to chart its own course, to forge its own partnerships, to choose its own allies.”

“YOU don’t choose your life; it chooses you. There’s no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them and carry on.”