The woman that deliberates is lost.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

My biographers… would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided… to flip the order.

A ‚No‘ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‚Yes‘ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

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

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

You’re president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

‚In Utero‘ was the first time I’d made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear ‚Pennyroyal Tea.‘

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

Temptation is a woman’s weapon and man’s excuse.

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

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

I’ve turned down shows offering large amounts of money.

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

The buck stops here!

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

And no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

It’s not easy being young. It’s hard to know what to do.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

Solutions are not the answer.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

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

I’m a woman, and anytime you tell a woman that she looks nice, it’s not going to upset her.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.

I only change things where I know about a situation. I’d never change just for change.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

I live on a one-way street that’s also a dead end. I’m not sure how I got there.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

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

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

My parents had us in church every Sunday, every Wednesday. It was more of a tradition at that point; I didn’t have a personal relationship with the Lord until I went to the altar call one Sunday, and the youth pastor told us to make a decision for ourselves.

I don’t write policy for my government.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it’s an illusory sense of control.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

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.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.