When you get angry, your options narrow.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

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

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren’t always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

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

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

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.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

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.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

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

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Imagination decides everything.

At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

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.

I’m not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

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

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Mothers and daughters generally have fairly complex relationships, and ours was made much more so by Mother’s illness. She had Parkinson’s disease, which was not diagnosed for a long time… All that made me very self-protective, because for one thing, I didn’t want to get trapped.

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.

Since the team understands that the leader is de facto in charge, in that respect, a leader has nothing to prove. But in another respect, a leader has everything to prove: Every member of the team must develop the trust and confidence that their leader will exercise good judgment, remain calm, and make the right decisions when it matters most.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

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

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

It’s been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don’t suppose anybody really understands yet.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

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.

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

We’re not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, ‚If you don’t know how to make the right decision, you’re not a director.‘

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

If I couldn’t laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn’t laugh we just would go insane, If we weren’t all crazy we would go insane.

Sleep is the best meditation.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it’s an illusory sense of control.

It’s so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.

To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it’s a good indication of what you’re made of.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.

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

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.

I don’t think I get angry.