“The nature of the presidency is that sometimes you don't choose which challenges come to your desk. You do decide how to respond.”

“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”

“Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.”

“How to preside over your own internal disorder? Finding the "I" that can represent the pack of you is the first challenge of the memoirist.”

“Although you may not always be able to avoid difficult situations,you can modify the extent to which you can suffer by how you choose to respond to the situation.”

“Sometimes rescue comes to you. It just shows up, and you do nothing. Maybe you deserve it, maybe you don't. But be ready, when it comes, to decide if you will take the outstretched hand and let it pull you ashore.”