We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s more than that. It’s essential for your children and your children’s children.

My songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

At one point he decided enough was enough.

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

I haven’t written my own epitaph, and I’m not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.

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

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

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

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

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

I don’t need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

Since the team understands that the leader is de facto in charge, in that respect, a leader has nothing to prove. But in another respect, a leader has everything to prove: Every member of the team must develop the trust and confidence that their leader will exercise good judgment, remain calm, and make the right decisions when it matters most.

When doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God’s Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

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

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can’t let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn’t even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

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.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.

I won’t do something unless I can get at least two or three good laughs out of it. If I can’t, it’s not gonna make the team.

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.

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

I don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.

Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren’t always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

I want to be remembered as iconic and different.

‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

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.

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

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

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 don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.

They’ll forget all the rubbish when I’ve gone, and they’ll remember the football. If only one person thinks I’m the best player in the world, that’s good enough for me.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

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

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

I don’t think of Kurt as ‚Kurt Cobain from Nirvana‘. I think of him as ‚Kurt‘. It’s something that comes back all the time. Almost every day.

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

If I want to do well in racing I need to be more focused so I stopped going to school. If I wasn’t a very good driver it would not be a wise decision, but it gives me an advantage over my competitors.