Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

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.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

Be content to seem what you really are.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

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

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

One man with courage is a majority.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

I don’t care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down, but mainly because I don’t have an intuitive feeling for equations.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

I don’t ever make moves under pressure.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

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

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

The complexity of things – the things within things – just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

I’m not the most patient of people.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

As president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But 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.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.