Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

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.

Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

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

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

The dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?

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

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

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

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

We spend so much time sublimatin‘, thinkin‘ about, ‚What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?‘

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

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.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual’s own reason and critical analysis.

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

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side, not the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

The Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God.

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

I’m not looking to exclude people, I’m looking to include them.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

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

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.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

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.

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 make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

We are a nation of communities… a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.

The buck stops here!

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

Political courage is not political suicide.

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

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

As president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But 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.

Pakistan is not a unified country.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.