If you judge, investigate.

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.

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.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

It’s easy to become very self-critical when you’re an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

I give opinions, not advice.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

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.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

I’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it?

My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go.

History, a distillation of rumour.

I just know what is right and I want to do what is right.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

As I have done in every election since I started voting so many years ago, I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‚Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.‘ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.

Don’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.

We’re not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, ‚What sign do I want to give to God?‘ That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Dissents speak to a future age.

‚Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

I don’t write policy for my government.

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

My parents had us in church every Sunday, every Wednesday. It was more of a tradition at that point; I didn’t have a personal relationship with the Lord until I went to the altar call one Sunday, and the youth pastor told us to make a decision for ourselves.

I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.

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

I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

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

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

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