“I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.”

“With every choice you risk the life you could have had. With every decision you lose it.”

“...you have taken part in the only really majestic choice we get to make in life, which is to continue it.”

“Life is about choices, and you have the ability to choose. You always have had this ability. I suggest that not only do you have the ability, you have the responsibility to make choices for yourself. It is your life, and you are in the driver's seat, if you choose to be.”

“Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if only you had gone right one day when you chose to go left, you would be living a life you could never have anticipated. But at other times you think there was no other way forward--that you were always bound to end up exactly where you have.”

“You don't choose anything important. It just happens. The only choice you have is if you'll make life's accidents work.”