Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

For my career, I wouldn’t go racing if I didn’t enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

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.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

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

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

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.

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.

When in doubt, don’t.

I’m doing more of my U.N. work and doing the African Union Summit and things like that.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

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.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

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.

I can never say ‚why‘ about anything I do. I suppose I can say ‚how‘ and ‚when‘ and ‚what.‘ But ‚why‘ is impenetrable to me.

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

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

I can’t explain 9/11, except the evil of man.

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

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

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

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.

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.

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

I love that for Barack, there is no such thing as ‚us‘ and ‚them‘ – he doesn’t care whether you’re a Democrat, a Republican, or none of the above… he knows that we all love our country… and he’s always ready to listen to good ideas… he’s always looking for the very best in everyone he meets.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

We also can’t try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That’s not leadership; that’s a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It’s the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq – and we should have learned it by now.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

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

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

You can’t have a value structure without a hierarchy. They’re the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

Is the Iranian record of intervention and terror worse than that of the U.S.?

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

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

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

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

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.

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