It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

I don’t believe in signing anything and everything that comes my way. I leave it to my agency to help narrow them down for me, but I do research it myself before signing. The image of the brand and its ambassadors go hand in hand.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.

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

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

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

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

There is always safety in valor.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

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

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

At one point he decided enough was enough.

I tried to be a serious student and not procrastinate, but I was still somebody that would be described as somebody who liked to have fun, too, and go to the occasional party – or two or three.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

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.

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

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

I don’t think I would run for president.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

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

I think the reason I don’t read is because, when I’m reading, I feel like I’m missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where’s my girlfriend?

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

Political courage is not political suicide.

I’ve actually not read any books on time management.

An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

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

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

I can write a song in about an hour if it’s a simple country song.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

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.

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

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.

In business, if you realize you’ve made a bad decision, you change it.

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