A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

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.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.

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

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

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

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

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.

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

We believe that according the name ‚investors‘ to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a ‚romantic.‘

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

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.

I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone’s life.

In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a ‚should‘ involved, and this cannot be worked out from, ‚If I do this, what will happen?‘ alone.

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.

Mine is better than ours.

Political courage is not political suicide.

Gospel music is never pessimistic, it’s never ‚oh my god, its all going down the tubes‘, like the blues often is.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job. But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

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.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

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

During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.

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

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.

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

The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It’s not that there’s something new in our way of thinking – it’s that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

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.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

I won’t do something unless I can get at least two or three good laughs out of it. If I can’t, it’s not gonna make the team.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

The common question that gets asked in business is, ‚why?‘ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‚why not?‘

Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It’s like stealing a two-year-old.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

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.