I’ll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the ‚right‘ thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

I thought ‚Heller‘ was a very bad decision.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

Solutions are not the answer.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

I am fearful, or suspicious, of generalizations… They cannot guide me reliably in making decisions about particular individuals.

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.

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?

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

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

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

If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

You’re president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.

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

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.

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

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

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

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

I’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it?

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

At one point he decided enough was enough.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

I don’t write policy for my government.

If you’re holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

A ‚No‘ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‚Yes‘ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

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.

When you get angry, your options narrow.

Those who cry out that the government should ‚do something‘ never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.