When in doubt, don’t.

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.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

For my career, I wouldn’t go racing if I didn’t enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.

It is not scientifically possible to accurately predict the outcome of an action. To suggest otherwise runs contrary to historical experience and the nature of war.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

It’s hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

I don’t have a magic formula for prioritizing the world’s problems.

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

On the court, I want to try and get to the free-throw line a little more. And as a point guard, you can always get better at your decision-making and limiting your mistakes.

We don’t believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

I don’t really plan. I’m almost intuitive about things.

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.

I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?

Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone’s life.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It’s not that there’s something new in our way of thinking – it’s that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

I always wanted to do things right and represent myself as somebody that took the art serious and someone that took the business serious also, so I had time to weigh the options and figure it out and do my best to create the situation that was ideal.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

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

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

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

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.

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.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.