When you’re 40, you can’t ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

It’s like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it’s solid so it’s something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.

Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I’m riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I’m riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park – no, I don’t wear the dreaded helmet then.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

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

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

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

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

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

I’ve never gone wrong trusting my gut.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

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

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

I don’t write policy for my government.

I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me.

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

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

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Men must know their limitations.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

I won’t do something unless I can get at least two or three good laughs out of it. If I can’t, it’s not gonna make the team.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

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.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

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.

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

I don’t do research. I never have.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘