I’ve never gone wrong trusting my gut.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

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.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

The buck stops here!

I’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones – the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

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

I give opinions, not advice.

When in doubt tell the truth.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

When in doubt, don’t.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

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

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

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

I only change things where I know about a situation. I’d never change just for change.

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

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

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

Every President wants to do right.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

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.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren’t always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

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.

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.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

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

When I get logical, and I don’t trust my instincts – that’s when I get in trouble.

When I began in 1960, individuality wasn’t an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There’s room for intuition.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.

I can never say ‚why‘ about anything I do. I suppose I can say ‚how‘ and ‚when‘ and ‚what.‘ But ‚why‘ is impenetrable to me.

Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.

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

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.

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.

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

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.

It is always your next move.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.