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

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

You’re president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster – closed and forgotten within the first year.

I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?

‚Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

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.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Fate pulls you in different directions.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

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.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

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

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

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.

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

The court generally moves in small steps rather than in one giant step.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

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.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

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.

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

Always remember that your calmness under fire is your best defense in any argument or discussion.

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

That’s when you know you’re the greatest: when you’re the greatest, and people still put odds against you.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.