“You get to a point where you have one of two choices. You either put a gun to your head or you pray.”

“What are your choices when someone puts a gun to your head?What are you talking about? You do what they say or they shoot you.WRONG. You take the gun, or you pull out a bigger one. Or, you call their bluff. Or, you do any one of a hundred and forty six other things.”

“When the tides change, you have two choices. You can either stand there, letting the water wash over you and your feet sink deeper into the wet sand... or you can get out of the way. You can move up the beach - or off the beach, if you want. The point is to not get stuck.”

“When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.”

“When you get up in the morning, you have two choices - either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy.”

“No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice and must be prepared to take the rough spots along the road with a certain equanimity, though allowed some grinding of the teeth.”