We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

It is our future on the line, and we must at least have a say in it.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.

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.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

I don’t really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

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.

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

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.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy’s will are not allowed that luxury.

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 don’t ever make moves under pressure.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.

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 think I would run for president.

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

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

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.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.

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

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

I’ve never gone wrong trusting my gut.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

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.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

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.

Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it’s damaging.

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

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

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment’s notice.

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the ‚right‘ thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

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

Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you have to go with don’t go back on it.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.