I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

On the court, I want to try and get to the free-throw line a little more. And as a point guard, you can always get better at your decision-making and limiting your mistakes.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

We don’t believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego’s fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

Almost anything can be funny if said the right way – but it has to be said the right way.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

People are unaware of what is going on. When I talk to people, they know the basics, they know the planet is warming because of greenhouse gases… but they don’t know the actual consequence of that.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

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

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.

I don’t really plan. I’m almost intuitive about things.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

I’ve never gone wrong trusting my gut.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

Change alone is unchanging.

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.