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.

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

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

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

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

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.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

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.

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

We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it.

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

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

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

I don’t believe in signing anything and everything that comes my way. I leave it to my agency to help narrow them down for me, but I do research it myself before signing. The image of the brand and its ambassadors go hand in hand.

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

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

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

Each faithful young woman in the Church proclaims that individual worth is one of her most cherished values.

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.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

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

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

Of two evils, choose neither.

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts… to my surprise… almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

I don’t ever make moves under pressure.

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

The problem with car dealerships is you’ve already decided what you want to buy before you even go there, and you’re really just going there to talk through some annoying negotiation.

As a member of the Church, you have made sacred covenants with the Lord.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

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

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

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

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

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

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

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

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

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

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

Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

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

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.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing.

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.

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.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

One aim of the Boy Scouts scheme is to revive amongst us, if possible, some of the rules of the knights of old.

All leaders in the Lord’s Church are called by proper authority. No prophet or any other leader in this Church, for that matter, has ever called himself or herself. No prophet has ever been elected.

Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.

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