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

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.

Those who cry out that the government should ‚do something‘ never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

I won’t do something unless I can get at least two or three good laughs out of it. If I can’t, it’s not gonna make the team.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

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

Imagination decides everything.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

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

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

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

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

Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

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.

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

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

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.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

Ultimately this issue is on us. We’re the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

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.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

‚Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

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

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

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

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

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

As president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

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.

I re-invented my image so many times that I’m in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

It is always your next move.