Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

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

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar… Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

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

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

At one point he decided enough was enough.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they’re better than other human beings.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

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.

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.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

In business, if you realize you’ve made a bad decision, you change it.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

I don’t have a magic formula for prioritizing the world’s problems.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.

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.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

I’m very much a creature of habit.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

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.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

I don’t ever make moves under pressure.