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

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

When you get angry, your options narrow.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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.

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

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

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

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.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

He who can be, and therefore is, another’s, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

To bear means to support the weight of that which is held. It is a sacred trust to bear the priesthood, which is the mighty power and authority of God.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

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.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

I don’t have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

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.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

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.

Control is the source of strategic power.

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.

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?

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

When I was running training, we would fire a couple of leaders from every SEAL team because they couldn’t lead. And 99.9% of the time, it wasn’t a question of their ability – it was a question of their ability to listen.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.