Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success I'd probably choose success.

When you choose your friends don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

Having grown up in Bombay from the day you're born you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.

I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks more girls better pay and greater freedom than the soldier but at this stage of the game having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve and find in that obedience our freedom.

Americans are free to choose everything from what they eat drive and watch on TV to the President of the United States. Yet when it comes to allowing Americans to choose the health insurance that works best for them and their family the freedom to choose suddenly becomes un-American.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

Anywhere anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose the choice is the same: freedom not tyranny democracy not dictatorship the rule of law not the rule of the secret police.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

When people talk of the freedom of writing speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose and that is the path of surrender or submission.

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy happiness negativity pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

The cost of freedom is always high but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose and that is the path of surrender or submission.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

In America through pressure of conformity there is freedom of choice but nothing to choose from.

Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food it's definitely music.

When I pair food and wine I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir or maybe a Syrah depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar.

I have no doubt that given a real choice the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want they choose what they think is safe.