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

When in doubt, don’t.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

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

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

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

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.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

If I don’t run for president, we’ll all be OK.

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

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn’t know exactly what.

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

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

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.

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

My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

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

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

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

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

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

When I’m in management meetings when we’re deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I’m the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That’s the part of my life where I feel most in control.

The problem with car dealerships is you’ve already decided what you want to buy before you even go there, and you’re really just going there to talk through some annoying negotiation.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it.

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.

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

I’ve always felt that if I examine myself too much, I’ll find out what I know and don’t know, and I’ll burst the bubble. I’ve gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I’d rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the ‚right‘ thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

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

I give opinions, not advice.

I won’t do something unless I can get at least two or three good laughs out of it. If I can’t, it’s not gonna make the team.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

At one point he decided enough was enough.

If I want to do well in racing I need to be more focused so I stopped going to school. If I wasn’t a very good driver it would not be a wise decision, but it gives me an advantage over my competitors.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

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

When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.

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

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

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

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.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

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.

A ‚No‘ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‚Yes‘ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.

There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.

Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I’m riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I’m riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park – no, I don’t wear the dreaded helmet then.

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.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.