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

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

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.

There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

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.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‚Boy, those were great old days.‘ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

You can’t have a value structure without a hierarchy. They’re the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

I restore myself when I’m alone.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

I wear a hat on stage so that people won’t be blinded by the reflection from my head. Also, if I don’t wear a hat, there’s no way that the hat can be at that level by itself on the stage.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

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.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

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

Make no mistake about why these babies are here – they are here to replace us.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

My mum passing away wasn’t funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation.

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

In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a ‚should‘ involved, and this cannot be worked out from, ‚If I do this, what will happen?‘ alone.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn’t even know you’d done.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

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

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

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

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

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

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

It’s not easy being young. It’s hard to know what to do.

Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

I have wondered about time all my life.

I don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

I am rather inclined to silence.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.