It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

He who molds the public sentiment… makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

If you judge, investigate.

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.

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

He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

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.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

A ‚No‘ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‚Yes‘ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

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

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

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.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you have to go with don’t go back on it.

The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It’s not that there’s something new in our way of thinking – it’s that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

When I was running training, we would fire a couple of leaders from every SEAL team because they couldn’t lead. And 99.9% of the time, it wasn’t a question of their ability – it was a question of their ability to listen.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

I thought ‚Heller‘ was a very bad decision.

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

Be the chief but never the lord.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Every action has a consequence. It may be good for strengthening. And I have no doubt that lifting a lot of weights can get you stronger. I just don’t know if lifting stronger weights can keep you healthy, or it can keep you doing your job better, especially for a pro athlete.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

Most emissions aren’t caused by individuals, they’re caused by corporations and states.

I tend to feel if people say they’re going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

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

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

I do the dishes every night – other people volunteer, but I like the way I do it.

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.

I’ve never gone wrong trusting my gut.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

I have too many clothes, I have too many options.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they’re not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.

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