Iris Apfel Quotes

I never try to think I have the answer to what people should do or not do.

People will always have an opinion, but you have to live life the way you want to. It's very easy to tell others what to do, but difficult to implement it on yourself.

Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.

Ultimately the person, even the child, must choose for himself.

I don't like to tell people what they should or shouldn't do.

I think some things that are better for me are not good for other people, innit. They need to run theirself. Everybody should run theirself.

People have to make their own decisions about their lives.

People have a right to their own lives, and if you can't help somebody, you ought to get out of their way.

So the life I have made May seem wrong to you But, I've never been surer It's my life to ruin My own way.

I like a world where each of us has the tools to be able to make able to make our own decisions.

The power of choice. You have it. But you forfeit it when you imagine that you can choose for others. You can't. But you can choose for yourself.

I believe very firmly in the principle of free agency - people making their own decisions and doing what they think is right.

I do believe people ought to be left alone. I don't care who you are or what you do at home or who your friends are or where you hang out, what kind of music you listen to, what you do in your home is your own business. That's always been who I am. I am a leave me alone kind of guy.

No teacher, preacher, parent, friend, or wise man can decide what's right for you.

Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.

As long as you're not hurting anyone, your choices are your choices.

Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain ways, in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone.

Can you let me go to hell the way I want to?

I'm not going to tell people how to live their life and I surely wouldn't tell people my life is the way you should be living. People get to choose what they do want to do with their life and I appreciated that.

I follow my desires, and I'm prepared to take the consequences.

It's not my job to force people to believe things.

My limits are what are comfortable to me. We are all individuals and have different views and perspectives, and I do what I feel is most comfortable and OK for me.