“I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.”

“I need to take an emotional breath, step back, and remind myself who’s actually in charge of my life.”

“When encountering emotional vampires, see what you can learn. It's your choice. You can simply feel tortured, resentful, impotent. Or, as I try to do, ask yourself, "How can this interaction help me grow?”

“Shuki’s wisdom: "Sometimes things happen, and the only choice you have is to accept it, and learn to make a life anyway.”

“How you react emotionally is a choice in any situation.”

“If you have a choice follow the path less traveled its more fun.”

“The fact that we live without God is, in a sense, not up to us. It's not really a choice. . . But goodness is a choice. It is the most important choice we can ever make. And we have to make it again and again, throughout our lives and in every aspect of our lives.”