When in doubt, don’t.

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.

I don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.

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?

If you judge, investigate.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

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

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.

When you want a thing done, ‚Don’t do it yourself‘ is a good motto for Scoutmasters.

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

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

I’ve never gone wrong trusting my gut.

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

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues – of my comrades in the movement – who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

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

On the court, I want to try and get to the free-throw line a little more. And as a point guard, you can always get better at your decision-making and limiting your mistakes.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

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

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

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.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

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

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

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

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

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

Those who cry out that the government should ‚do something‘ never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

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.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

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.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

It’s hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

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.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

U2’s best work has always been when we didn’t know what we’re doing.

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

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.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

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.

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.

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

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.