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

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

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

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Knowledge is power.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

My biographers… would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided… to flip the order.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

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

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

Of two evils, choose neither.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

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?

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Age doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

I’m grateful to intelligent people. That doesn’t mean educated. That doesn’t mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call ‚mother wit‘ means intelligence that you had in your mother’s womb. That’s what you rely on. You know what’s right to do.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the ‚my way or the highway‘ approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

No nation should stoke instability in its neighbor’s country.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

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

I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.

The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

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

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

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

The idea that putting Americans ‚first‘ requires a withdrawal from the world is simply wrongheaded because a retreat would achieve exactly the opposite for our citizens.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

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

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

Information is not knowledge.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.