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

Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it ‚the new modesty.‘

Love can do much, but duty more.

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

I’m sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain’t me.

Locally, I’ll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

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

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

I like a colorful sock. I’m a sock man.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.

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.

Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don’t care attitude about clothes. You don’t care, you just do it and it looks great.

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

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

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

So long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you’ve served us – because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.

When in doubt tell the truth.

I write all of my own speeches.

Any colour – so long as it’s black.

I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn’t matter whether people like it or not. When I write, I feel the pressure and anxiety that come with taking an empty piece of paper and trying to fill it with something from your own consciousness.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

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

In this world, emotion has become suspect – the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual’s own reason and critical analysis.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don’t live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

Once you have six children, you’re committed.

Probably my first couple years in the league, I started paying more attention to what I was wearing. Once I got a few bucks in my pocket and I could afford some nice things, and you get to go, ‚OK, let’s try some of these things.‘ And once you try something you like, you probably don’t change it much.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

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

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, ‚Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!‘

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

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

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

At one point he decided enough was enough.

I like being comfortable at airports, in flip-flops with no jewelry on.

I have more suits than days of the year that I get to wear them.

I like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day’s schedule and be ready for any off-road detour.

As president, I’m committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

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