If you judge, investigate.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.

You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

History should be written as philosophy.

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

‚I am‘ is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that ‚I do‘ is the longest sentence?

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

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.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.

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.

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or women.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

I am not a televangelist.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

Solutions are not the answer.

I don’t have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

If you want to be a good strategist, you can never just go off a principle you read in a book. You need to adapt what you do to the situation; no rule of thumb is true all the time.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

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.

I’m not the judge. You know, God didn’t tell me to go around judging everybody.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

Religion is just mind control.

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

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

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it’s an illusory sense of control.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

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

At one point he decided enough was enough.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

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

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

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

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

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

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.