Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

Just because you make a good plan, doesn’t mean that’s what’s gonna happen.

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.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

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

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job. But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

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

Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

I don’t think I would run for president.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Christmas morning, I’m going to open presents with my kids. I’m going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I’m going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided.

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

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.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Eight, as you know, is not a good number for a multi-member court.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

There’s a reason that I have confidence out there, and it’s about how I prepare for games and for series and seasons and whatnot, so we’ve got to stick with that kind of thought process.

I delayed my father’s funeral because of cricket.

If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you’re able to do it.

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

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

I don’t really plan. I’m almost intuitive about things.

The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It’s not that there’s something new in our way of thinking – it’s that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

One reason I don’t want to play in England again is because we don’t have any personalities.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren’t always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

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

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

I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?

As a kid, I’d go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I’d be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

On the court, I want to try and get to the free-throw line a little more. And as a point guard, you can always get better at your decision-making and limiting your mistakes.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

It is always your next move.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

I don’t believe in signing anything and everything that comes my way. I leave it to my agency to help narrow them down for me, but I do research it myself before signing. The image of the brand and its ambassadors go hand in hand.

If I’d known how much packing I’d have to do, I’d have run again.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

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.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

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.