“You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.”

“We wrote our names in the sandYou crossed mine out: I can't getback to the way I was.”

“The gulf between the information we proclaim & the information we know to be true is vast. In other words: we say one thing & do another.”

“Our destiny becomes the accumulation of the choices that we make; the choices of which paths we took in life.”

“Social scientists sometimes talk about the concept of "identity". It is the idea that you have a particular vision of the kind of person you are, and you feel awful when you do things that are out of line with that vision.”

“The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.”

“After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective, playing the lottery is a bad investment. But it's fun and relatively cheap: for the price of a ticket, you buy the right to fantasize how you'd spend the winnings - much as you get to fantasize that your vote will have some impact on policy.”