I’ve never gone wrong trusting my gut.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

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

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

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

It is our future on the line, and we must at least have a say in it.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

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

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

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

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

Every President wants to do right.

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

Imagination decides everything.

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.

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

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

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

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

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn’t know exactly what.

One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

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

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

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

If you judge, investigate.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

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

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

If the critics are right that I’ve made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

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

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.