“Between Stimulus and Response, one has the freedom to choose. Within the freedom to choose are those endowments that make us uniquely human: self-awareness; imagination (the ability to create in our minds beyond our present reality); conscience (a deep inner awareness of the principles that govern our behavior, and a sense of the degree to which our thoughts and actions are in harmony with them); and independent will (the ability to act based on our self-awareness, free of all other influences.)”
– Stephen R. Covey