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

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.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

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

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Solutions are not the answer.

There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.

I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don’t know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

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

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

We spend so much time sublimatin‘, thinkin‘ about, ‚What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?‘

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

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.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

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

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

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

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.

We are wiser than we know.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts… to my surprise… almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

Only the shallow know themselves.

What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

When you’re 40, you can’t ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that’s Memoirs.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

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

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president – and the president alone – who always makes the final call.