I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

Time stays, we go.

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

Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

I don’t have a magic formula for prioritizing the world’s problems.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

He who molds the public sentiment… makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

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.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

Life is wasted on the living.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

As president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

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.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

If it’s all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it’s all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that’s it. You’re not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You’re not going to read that book again.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

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.

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

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

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.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

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.

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.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

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

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

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.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.