An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you – you – you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.

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

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

Being flooded with information doesn’t mean we have the right information or that we’re in touch with the right people.

War settles nothing.

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.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

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

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

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

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

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

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

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.

Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues – of my comrades in the movement – who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

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

Political courage is not political suicide.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

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.

I won’t touch on risky, because that’s subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

When you’re in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There’s also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.

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

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

It’s not easy being young. It’s hard to know what to do.

If you judge, investigate.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

I delayed my father’s funeral because of cricket.

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

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

I don’t think there’s any point going for second or third.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

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.

I don’t want to spend money the club doesn’t have; I don’t want to hold a player that doesn’t want to stay.