We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

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

When I’m in management meetings when we’re deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I’m the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That’s the part of my life where I feel most in control.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

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

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

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.

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

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

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.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

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

A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

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

There’s a reason why the Foo Fighters don’t blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that’s hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn’t really come up, or it just hasn’t felt right.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

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.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

One reason I don’t want to play in England again is because we don’t have any personalities.

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

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

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

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

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

A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.

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

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

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.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

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

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

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.

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.

I don’t ever make moves under pressure.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

When in doubt, don’t.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.