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

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

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.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

One aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to write it out, sometimes you find that your first judgment wasn’t the right one.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

I don’t want to spend money the club doesn’t have; I don’t want to hold a player that doesn’t want to stay.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

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

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

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

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

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

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.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

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.

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.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they’re not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

When you’re in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There’s also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

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

Of two evils, choose neither.

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.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

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

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

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

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

I only change things where I know about a situation. I’d never change just for change.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

In my line of work, the enemy gets a vote.

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

In business, if you realize you’ve made a bad decision, you change it.

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

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.

When you’re 40, you can’t ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

Every President wants to do right.

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

I don’t think there’s any point going for second or third.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.