A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

There is no gambling like politics.

There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.

Every President wants to do right.

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.

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

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

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

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

I don’t think I would run for president.

There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. 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.

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

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

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

If I don’t run for president, we’ll all be OK.

I’ll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.

I’m working on my life story. I’m not decided if it’s going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

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

Writing music is just like writing a book.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

You’re beautiful, like a May fly.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

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

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.

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

Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

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

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

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

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

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

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

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.