The real danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like action is happening when in fact nothing is being done.

I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just… wouldn’t have come up out of the water.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

I let the American people down.

I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.

‚Speed‘ and ‚Point Break‘ were a lot of running and jumping, and then ‚The Matrix Trilogy‘ had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

Many people seem to have this double moral. They say one thing and then do another thing. They say that the climate crisis is very important and yet they do nothing about it.

It is often useful, if an enemy happens to see you, to pretend that you have not seen him. Or it may sometimes be useful to pretend that you have other men with you. I did this once in the Boer War when, having crept up a donga to look at a Boer fort, I was seen by the enemy, and they came out to capture me.

I do the dishes every night – other people volunteer, but I like the way I do it.

The book, ’12 Rules For Life,‘ is a very serious book. There’s elements of humor in it, but I’m trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it’s necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there’s hell to pay if you don’t do that.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

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

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

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

The Joker that Christopher Nolan created in ‚The Dark Knight‘ had the scar across his mouth, and the first time you heard his explanation for it, he makes you believe that’s how he got it. But then you get into the film, and every time he talks about his scar, it’s a totally different story.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

Respect the burden.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

One crime has to be concealed by another.