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.

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

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone’s guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

I’m a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what’s wrong and fixing it.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

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

And no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

We do need women in civic life. We do need women to run for office, to be in political office. We need a feminist to be at the table when decisions are being made so that the right decisions will be made.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

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

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

It is not scientifically possible to accurately predict the outcome of an action. To suggest otherwise runs contrary to historical experience and the nature of war.

One reason I don’t want to play in England again is because we don’t have any personalities.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual’s own reason and critical analysis.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

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

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone’s life.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

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

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

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Information is not knowledge.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

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

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

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.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

The more I see the less I know for sure.