I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.

Man, I really like Vegas.

No place is better than Akron.

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

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn’t that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I’d already been translating French poetry, I’d been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.

I delayed my father’s funeral because of cricket.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

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.

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

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

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.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Ultimately this issue is on us. We’re the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.

I’m working on my life story. I’m not decided if it’s going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

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

I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.

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.

Travel teaches toleration.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

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

I’m really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I’m out; I’m asleep for takeoff.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

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.

‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

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

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

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

Locally, I’ll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

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

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, ‚I’m not interested,‘ or you’re unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don’t understand that, and I think it’s rude. You’re at Grandma’s house, you eat what Grandma serves you.