I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

When I began in 1960, individuality wasn’t an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There’s room for intuition.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

There are some loony people in this world!

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

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

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.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

Put your leaders in stressful scenarios. Make them figure out solutions under pressure. See if you can make them frustrated, angry, and flustered, and then demand decisive leadership from them. They will be challenged at first, but they will get better over time.

When in doubt tell the truth.

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

Married or single, you sisters possess distinctive capabilities and special intuition you have received as gifts from God. We brethren cannot duplicate your unique influence.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

A creep is someone who claims he’s one thing but he’s actually another.

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

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

I didn’t do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

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

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

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

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.

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.

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 vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

I don’t ever make moves under pressure.

Well, I’ll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Since the team understands that the leader is de facto in charge, in that respect, a leader has nothing to prove. But in another respect, a leader has everything to prove: Every member of the team must develop the trust and confidence that their leader will exercise good judgment, remain calm, and make the right decisions when it matters most.

Political courage is not political suicide.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

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

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a ‚should‘ involved, and this cannot be worked out from, ‚If I do this, what will happen?‘ alone.

Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.

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

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.

I delayed my father’s funeral because of cricket.

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 have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.