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

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

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.

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

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.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without 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.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the ‚right‘ thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

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

Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God’s great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

Every President wants to do right.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

You’re president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.

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.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

A ‚No‘ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‚Yes‘ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

In my career as a director, there’s always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: ‚What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?‘ At that time you have to say: ‚OK, forget that and just go ahead.‘

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

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.

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

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

We spend so much time sublimatin‘, thinkin‘ about, ‚What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?‘

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

It’s a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they’re almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

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

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

In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

Married or single, you sisters possess distinctive capabilities and special intuition you have received as gifts from God. We brethren cannot duplicate your unique influence.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

I’m first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can’t say why I’m one.