There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.

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

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

The common question that gets asked in business is, ‚why?‘ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‚why not?‘

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

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

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

In business, if you realize you’ve made a bad decision, you change it.

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

Eight, as you know, is not a good number for a multi-member court.

I’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.

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

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

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.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it.

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

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

At one point he decided enough was enough.

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.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

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’ve never gone wrong trusting my gut.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

I don’t really plan. I’m almost intuitive about things.

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

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

Solutions are not the answer.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.