The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual’s own reason and critical analysis.

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

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Force does not constitute right… obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

I’m working on my life story. I’m not decided if it’s going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

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.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

I don’t think I would run for president.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

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.

Put your leaders in stressful scenarios. Make them figure out solutions under pressure. See if you can make them frustrated, angry, and flustered, and then demand decisive leadership from them. They will be challenged at first, but they will get better over time.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

All of us are in the same place, each with our own rooms, and we were allowed to do whatever we wanted. Which is totally different than college, where they manage your schedule for you. In the NBA, you’re on your own.

I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

The wisest have the most authority.

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

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

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.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

I don’t ever make moves under pressure.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

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

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.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

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.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

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 think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

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

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

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

People love westerns worldwide. There’s something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It’s a simpler time. There’s no organized laws and stuff.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

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

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

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.