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

We’re not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

Eight, as you know, is not a good number for a multi-member court.

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

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

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.

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren’t always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

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

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

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.

Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

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

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

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.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

If you want to be a good strategist, you can never just go off a principle you read in a book. You need to adapt what you do to the situation; no rule of thumb is true all the time.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job. But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

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

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

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

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

It is our future on the line, and we must at least have a say in it.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

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

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.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

If you judge, investigate.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

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

I delayed my father’s funeral because of cricket.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Of two evils, choose neither.

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

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

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

When I’m back in New York – and this is a terrible thing to complain about – I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I’d like to. So many of my friends are really good chefs. It’s kind of like being in the Mafia.

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.

One of the key qualities a leader must possess is the ability to detach from the chaos, mayhem, and emotions in a situation and make good, clear decisions based on what is actually happening.