I don’t ever make moves under pressure.

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

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.

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

When you get angry, your options narrow.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

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

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

F2 cars have downforce; they’re quick. But it’s difficult for your brain and eyes to keep up with everything that’s going on once you’re in an F1 car. You get used to it and you learn to stay calm, because if you react too quickly the opposite will happen. Being more relaxed is when it becomes more natural and controlled.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There’s a lot of things that come with fame – it’s what people in the limelight have to do.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

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.

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.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

One aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to write it out, sometimes you find that your first judgment wasn’t the right one.

Courage is grace under pressure.

A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, ‚If you don’t know how to make the right decision, you’re not a director.‘

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

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

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

I delayed my father’s funeral because of cricket.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

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.

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.

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

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

If you’re always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

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

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

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.

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.

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.

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

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

When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn’t want them either, so it worked out well.