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

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

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

The buck stops here!

I don’t really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

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

My biographers… would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided… to flip the order.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

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.

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

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

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.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

I’ve never gone wrong trusting my gut.

Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.

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.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

Example is leadership.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

I’ve turned down shows offering large amounts of money.

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, ‚What sign do I want to give to God?‘ That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

If you are a professional player and you are playing in the top professional league, you are sorted financially, which is good.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

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

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

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?

The woman that deliberates is lost.

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

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

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

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.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

One of the key qualities a leader must possess is the ability to detach from the chaos, mayhem, and emotions in a situation and make good, clear decisions based on what is actually happening.

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.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

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

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

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.