“But circumstances change. Small causes lead to large effects. New paths are added. And all anyone can do . . . is choose.”

“They say faith is taking the first step when you can’t see the whole staircase. Actually, wisdom is seeing the elevator behind it that would have taken you to the top floor.”

“Sometimes in life, a sudden situation, a moment in time, alters your whole life, forever changes the road ahead.”

“If you know what the treasure of time is worth, if you know that time is a resource, then you will actually be able to convert your time into any product you want.”

“Parents like to think of themselves as Batmans, and of their children as Gotham Cities. Gotham City depends on Batman for its survival, and Batman delivers. This belief prevents parents from letting those young adults actually live their lives.”

“The easy path is seldom the right path.”

“I did not find my way out of the darkness until I admitted I was lost.”

“How do you choose your paths? Who says you do? Sometimes the path chooses you.”

“The secret is not following the right path, it’s following that right path to the end. Don’t quit, my friend, until you’ve arrived.”

“Being broke is part of the journey. Staying broke is a fucking choice.”

“You alone can create the change you seel. But how? By accepting things as they are, you allow yourself to make apt choices.”

“You have a choice, you can be someone who makes it happen or someone who lets it happen.”

“We are the ghost of the choices we didn’t make and shredded skin of the ones we did!”

“Consider: What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time?”

“But time has a way of stealthily deciding a person’s mind without her conscious knowledge, and as she studied and procrastinated, Poison found one day that she had come to know her choice.”