The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

We can approach God’s throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross.

When you get angry, your options narrow.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.

It kills me to lose. If I’m a troublemaker, and I don’t think that my temper makes me one, then it’s because I can’t stand losing. That’s the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

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

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‚least advanced‘ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.

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

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.

I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument… an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

The leaders come up from the volunteers that do the work, and it’s amazing because then they do these incredible things in their community that they never thought they had the power to make that happen.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

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.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.