I only change things where I know about a situation. I’d never change just for change.

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

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

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.

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

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

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

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

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

If you gonna wear the mohawk, you stick with it. You don’t just be dibby-dabbing. You make up your mind.

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!

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.

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

Finality is not the language of politics.

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

I think you can judge from somebody’s actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there’s a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

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.

My parents had us in church every Sunday, every Wednesday. It was more of a tradition at that point; I didn’t have a personal relationship with the Lord until I went to the altar call one Sunday, and the youth pastor told us to make a decision for ourselves.

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.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

I didn’t take many penalties, but I never missed one.

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

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

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

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

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

I don’t think I would run for president.

When in doubt tell the truth.

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

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

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

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

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

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

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

If you judge, investigate.

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

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

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.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

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

To be successful, you need results in a row. You can’t win, lose, win, lose.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

If the critics are right that I’ve made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

When I get logical, and I don’t trust my instincts – that’s when I get in trouble.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

I love soccer, love tennis… Roger Federer has been a favourite for a long, long time. The kind of consistency he has shown, 16 Grand Slam titles… The way he handles himself in pressure situations is admirable… He is so calm… In soccer, I’m a huge fan of Barcelona… I like watching Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and David Villa.

I delayed my father’s funeral because of cricket.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

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

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

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