Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

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

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

In my line of work, the enemy gets a vote.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

I’m working on my life story. I’m not decided if it’s going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

I think you can judge from somebody’s actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there’s a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

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.

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

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.

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

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.

I’ll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.

I don’t ever make moves under pressure.

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

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don’t understand.

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.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

The moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It’s not that there’s something new in our way of thinking – it’s that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

If I want to do well in racing I need to be more focused so I stopped going to school. If I wasn’t a very good driver it would not be a wise decision, but it gives me an advantage over my competitors.

When you’re in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There’s also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

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.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

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

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it’s damaging.

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.

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.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

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?

I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.

One picture is worth 1,000 denials.

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

As you know, low demand and high supply means a drop in value of anything, including the dollar.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.