I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

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.

The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!

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.

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

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

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.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

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.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

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

When I’m home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we’re not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.

Sometimes, it’s just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It’s exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.

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

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you have to go with don’t go back on it.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

There’s a reason why the Foo Fighters don’t blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that’s hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn’t really come up, or it just hasn’t felt right.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

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

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

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.

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

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.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.

Silence is safer than speech.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

I don’t think I get that upset over things.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

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.

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

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

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

To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.

I always wanted to do things right and represent myself as somebody that took the art serious and someone that took the business serious also, so I had time to weigh the options and figure it out and do my best to create the situation that was ideal.

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

The court generally moves in small steps rather than in one giant step.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.