The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

Locally, I’ll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

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.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

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’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone’s life.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

On the court, I want to try and get to the free-throw line a little more. And as a point guard, you can always get better at your decision-making and limiting your mistakes.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

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.‘

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

A lie cannot live.

I don’t want to spend money the club doesn’t have; I don’t want to hold a player that doesn’t want to stay.

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

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

I’ll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It’s not that there’s something new in our way of thinking – it’s that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

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

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

When you’re 40, you can’t ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

I’m very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

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.

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.