“Fate is cruel, Oone. It would be better if it provided us with one unaltering path. Instead it forces us to make choices, never to know if those choices were for the best.”

“For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force…it is necessary to make a man better not by force but by persuasion. We neither have authority granted us by law to restrain sinners, nor, if it were, should we know how to use it, since God gives the crown to those who are kept from evil, not by force, but by choice.”

John Chrysostom (349–407) important Early Church Father

“Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love..”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

“Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.”

Jasper Fforde book The Last Dragonslayer

“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

“Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

“I think Romney is the best choice for us.”

George H. W. Bush (1924–2018) American politician, 41st President of the United States

“We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place--or not to bother”

Jane Goodall (1934) British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist

“Even the most difficult path is a much better choice than no path at all.”

Titon Rahmawan

“Fate is how your life unfolds when you let fear determine your choices. A path of destiny reveals itself to you, however, when you confront your fear and make conscious choices.”

Caroline Myss (1952) author from the United States