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!

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.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

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

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman’s equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

Example is leadership.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

Knowledge is power.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

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.

At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

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

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

I’m kind of claustrophobic… It’s not even like enclosed spaces. It’s like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can’t get out.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

As president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame’s is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We’re in a very self-destructive state where we’re addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

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

Death is a fearful thing.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

It’s disgusting, but my father taught me when your mouth gets dry, just suck the sweat out of your own jersey. There’s no bravado to any of it; it’s just a disgusting little trick.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

‚Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.