“A man chooses...a slave obeys.”

“We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.”

“I’ve always been suspicious of the assumption that great intelligence would be an unqualified benefit— that the madness that so often accompanies it can be cavalierly dismissed. So I asked the question: Suppose there were an entire subpopulation of extreme geniuses, well beyond anything that would occur naturally. What would that really look like?”

“In the end what separates a man from a slave? Money? Power? No, a man chooses... a slave obeys.”

“Life is life. You choose to live it or you do not.”

“He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.”

“Love is often confused with attraction. Love is an action, it’s a choice. We can choose to love someone. Attraction, however, is a feeling, it’s an emotion, it’s temporary.”