When in doubt, don’t.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

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.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

It’s a very confusing era that we’re in.

Jim Cramer is a very smart man. I watch his show. I just do not follow his advice.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

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

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.

And no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

I don’t have all the answers.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

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.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Finality is not the language of politics.

If I don’t run for president, we’ll all be OK.

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

Common sense is not so common.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

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 marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

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.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

I don’t believe in signing anything and everything that comes my way. I leave it to my agency to help narrow them down for me, but I do research it myself before signing. The image of the brand and its ambassadors go hand in hand.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

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.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

I don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

Whenever I counsel someone who feels called to be an evangelist, I always urge them to guard their time and not feel like they have to do everything.

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

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

I’ve learned people are watching, so don’t do nothing stupid.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it’s an illusory sense of control.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.