We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

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.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

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

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

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

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

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.

My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that’s the law.

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

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

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.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

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

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

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

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.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

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

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

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

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

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

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.