Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

As president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.

Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it’s damaging.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

My parents had us in church every Sunday, every Wednesday. It was more of a tradition at that point; I didn’t have a personal relationship with the Lord until I went to the altar call one Sunday, and the youth pastor told us to make a decision for ourselves.

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job. But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

I can analyze people’s intentions. Immediately. That’s just a warning. To everyone.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

Imagination decides everything.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

In my line of work, the enemy gets a vote.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone – and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

In whatever adulation you get, there’s truth and there’s not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible – there’s truth and there’s not truth. It’s human nature to like to read the adulation more.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

It is our future on the line, and we must at least have a say in it.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

The story being told in ‚Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a ‚should‘ involved, and this cannot be worked out from, ‚If I do this, what will happen?‘ alone.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

I delayed my father’s funeral because of cricket.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

I don’t do any vulgar movements.

It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.