I don’t want to spend money the club doesn’t have; I don’t want to hold a player that doesn’t want to stay.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

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

International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I don’t really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

Finality is not the language of politics.

The buck stops here!

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that’s the law.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

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

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

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

You’re president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

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

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

It is always your next move.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

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.

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

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, ‚What sign do I want to give to God?‘ That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

I am fearful, or suspicious, of generalizations… They cannot guide me reliably in making decisions about particular individuals.

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.

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.

You know people talk about federal money as if it falls from heaven. You know we thank heaven for it, but it came out of people’s pockets – and I’ve driven all over Washington, D.C., I cannot find the money tree.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

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

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.

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

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

I’ve turned down shows offering large amounts of money.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they’re not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

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.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

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

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.