The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

From caring comes courage.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

A lie cannot live.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual’s own reason and critical analysis.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

When I get logical, and I don’t trust my instincts – that’s when I get in trouble.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

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?

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

Solutions are not the answer.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

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 have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

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

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

I don’t ever make moves under pressure.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

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

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

For my career, I wouldn’t go racing if I didn’t enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

Every President wants to do right.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Drink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That’s when you know the most, you’ve seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy.