In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

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

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

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

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

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

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.

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

I know there’s a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that’s fine with me.

At ev’ry word a reputation dies.

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

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.

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you have to go with don’t go back on it.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

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

I have too many clothes, I have too many options.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

I sleep people. I put people unconscious. I’m stating facts.

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

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.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

When you’re in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There’s also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.