If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

I’m an emotional person. Sometimes I can’t help it.

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Your body has space within you that cannot die.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

I’m quite a chauvinistic person.

There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.

I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Players who are not from the U.K. have to get used to the winds. I have to adapt my style as a result as well. Often, you are forced to keep things simple.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

All of our problems start in our minds.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

I’m not a god – I do bad things.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

We are wiser than we know.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

You can sometimes play some really good football and not score.

Imagination decides everything.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

To insult someone we call him ‚bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, ‚human‘ might be the greater insult.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.