My parents had us in church every Sunday, every Wednesday. It was more of a tradition at that point; I didn’t have a personal relationship with the Lord until I went to the altar call one Sunday, and the youth pastor told us to make a decision for ourselves.

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

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

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

If you gonna wear the mohawk, you stick with it. You don’t just be dibby-dabbing. You make up your mind.

At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

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

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?

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

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

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

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

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

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.

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

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

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.

In business, if you realize you’ve made a bad decision, you change it.

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

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

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

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

The die is cast.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.

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.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

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

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

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

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.

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.

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. It’s been printed all over, so I don’t feel like I am hiding anything.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin‘ hymns is a great thing to do.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

I’m the proof – you can’t throw away tradition.

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.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

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

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.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

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

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

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

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

If you want to be a good strategist, you can never just go off a principle you read in a book. You need to adapt what you do to the situation; no rule of thumb is true all the time.

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason – to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.