But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in it's all there at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds bodies and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to we will instantly change our behaviors.

Every human has four endowments- self awareness conscience independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose to respond to change.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future or a different past.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job relationship home... it's your responsibility to love it or change it.

In L.A. I don't really want to go out because traffic sucks so bad. I'm sorry I'm not going to spend five hours a day in my car so you have to choose where you live very carefully.

For the first time we're allowing developers who don't work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That's a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda it is all the more important that the public understand that difference and choose their news sources accordingly.

Ultimately who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.