I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

If I don’t run for president, we’ll all be OK.

It is always your next move.

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

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.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.

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.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

People love conspiracy theories.

Of two evils, choose neither.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

I am fearful, or suspicious, of generalizations… They cannot guide me reliably in making decisions about particular individuals.

The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.

When you get angry, your options narrow.

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

I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that’s the law.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

Ultimately, I’m not doing that much. I’m only doing what a human being who feels wants to do – in my way, without stepping out of my flow, while staying in my lane. Without, I guess, boring people.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.

As social animals, we are extremely susceptible to the moods of other people. This gives us the power to subtly infuse into people the appropriate mood for influencing them.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

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.

Everyone knows nowadays that people ‚have complexes‘. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

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.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

I don’t think I would run for president.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.