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

We are what we believe we are.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

I couldn’t say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.

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

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.

A lot of guys are able to separate how they act off the court versus how they act on the court.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

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

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

It is always your next move.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

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.

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

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

There’s a reason why the Foo Fighters don’t blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that’s hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn’t really come up, or it just hasn’t felt right.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Finality is not the language of politics.

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

A creep is someone who claims he’s one thing but he’s actually another.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, ‚If you don’t know how to make the right decision, you’re not a director.‘

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

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