When in doubt, don’t.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

Eight, as you know, is not a good number for a multi-member court.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Our problem right now is that we’re so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there’s a little utopia.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

If you want to be a good strategist, you can never just go off a principle you read in a book. You need to adapt what you do to the situation; no rule of thumb is true all the time.

What’s coming will come and we’ll just have to meet it when it does.

In business, if you realize you’ve made a bad decision, you change it.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it’s feet first!

I don’t know what ‚normal‘ means, anyway.

Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

I’m not a fortune-teller.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren’t always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

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.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

I don’t ever make moves under pressure.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

I’m very careful about saying who would and wouldn’t go to heaven. I don’t know.

My advice is this. For Christ’s sake, don’t write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.

Don’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Entrepreneurs are natural problem-solvers, which means that we always have ideas for new businesses popping into our heads. Having a lot of options is great, but sometimes it can be hard to focus on one when you are keen to move onto the next.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

There’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

I don’t want to spend money the club doesn’t have; I don’t want to hold a player that doesn’t want to stay.

Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

You can’t have a value structure without a hierarchy. They’re the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.