Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

I’ve never gone wrong trusting my gut.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, ‚What sign do I want to give to God?‘ That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defense when and wherever needed.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

‚Some Kind Of Monster‘ is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you’re watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

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.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

We don’t have to let extremists define us.

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 business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize 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.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues – of my comrades in the movement – who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

I do believe in self-help.

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

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

Injustice in the end produces independence.

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.

International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

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.

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.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

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.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

Every President wants to do right.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

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.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

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

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.