It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

Life is wasted on the living.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

Ninety-nine percent of the men and women of the FBI… are just professionals. I don’t want Americans, if an FBI agent knocks on their door, to have to be worried about well, is he a Democrat or a Republican? He’s an FBI agent.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

God always has patience.

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

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

‚Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

In every parting there is an image of death.

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.

Age doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

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.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Change alone is unchanging.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

The more you know the less you need to say.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

It is always your next move.

I don’t ever make moves under pressure.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Philosophy is the highest music.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

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.

I never make conscious decisions.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.