Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I’m riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I’m riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park – no, I don’t wear the dreaded helmet then.

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

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

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

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

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.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

The court generally moves in small steps rather than in one giant step.

Service of any type requires preparation.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

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.

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

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.

I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone – and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

I give opinions, not advice.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you’re able to do it.

I can’t tell you the number of times I looked down at what was going on on the ground, or I was engaged in a fight somewhere, and I knew within a couple of minutes how I was going to screw up the enemy. And I knew it because I’d done so much reading.

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

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

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.

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.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

I always wanted to do things right and represent myself as somebody that took the art serious and someone that took the business serious also, so I had time to weigh the options and figure it out and do my best to create the situation that was ideal.

If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you’re decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

One aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to write it out, sometimes you find that your first judgment wasn’t the right one.

I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.

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

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

When in doubt tell the truth.

Every President wants to do right.

My parents had us in church every Sunday, every Wednesday. It was more of a tradition at that point; I didn’t have a personal relationship with the Lord until I went to the altar call one Sunday, and the youth pastor told us to make a decision for ourselves.