“How did I become the one to make this decision for everyone?”

“If you always make the right decision, the safe decision,the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else.”

“I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.”

“I made the only decision I ever knew how to make,' Truman famously asserted in one of his carefully scripted reminiscences. What does that mean, exactly? Did Truman see himself as a professional decision-maker with a narrow specialty, the choice between destroying and not destroying Japanese cities?”

“Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.”

“Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.”