My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

I don’t have a magic formula for prioritizing the world’s problems.

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.

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.

It’s not easy being young. It’s hard to know what to do.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

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.

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

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

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

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

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

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.

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

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Entrepreneurs are natural problem-solvers, which means that we always have ideas for new businesses popping into our heads. Having a lot of options is great, but sometimes it can be hard to focus on one when you are keen to move onto the next.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.

The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women’s cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

My father worked for a children’s home called Dr. Barnardo’s Homes. They’re a charity.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

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

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

Philanthropy should be voluntary.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

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

This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.

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

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

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

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

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.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

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.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

I’m working on my life story. I’m not decided if it’s going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ‚What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.‘

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.