I’ve turned down shows offering large amounts of money.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

The die is cast.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.

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.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

There’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

It is always your next move.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

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.

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

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

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

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

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn’t have to write for my living.

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

To be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference.

I don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

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

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

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual’s own reason and critical analysis.

The common question that gets asked in business is, ‚why?‘ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‚why not?‘

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

International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

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

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

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

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

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

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

What I’ve learned is that you really don’t need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

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

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

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

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

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

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback.

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

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

If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you’re decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

I don’t think I would run for president.

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues – of my comrades in the movement – who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.