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

We’re not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.

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

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.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly 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.

A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, ‚If you don’t know how to make the right decision, you’re not a director.‘

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that’s the law.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

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

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.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she’s a good wench for this gear.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

You’re president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.

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

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

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

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

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

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.

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

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

When I was running training, we would fire a couple of leaders from every SEAL team because they couldn’t lead. And 99.9% of the time, it wasn’t a question of their ability – it was a question of their ability to listen.

When I get logical, and I don’t trust my instincts – that’s when I get in trouble.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

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.

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it’s an illusory sense of control.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

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

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

When in doubt, don’t.

Temptation is a woman’s weapon and man’s excuse.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

I’m grateful to intelligent people. That doesn’t mean educated. That doesn’t mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call ‚mother wit‘ means intelligence that you had in your mother’s womb. That’s what you rely on. You know what’s right to do.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

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

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

If you gonna wear the mohawk, you stick with it. You don’t just be dibby-dabbing. You make up your mind.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

When I see grace in a woman, that’s very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

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.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.