You can only predict things after they've happened.
Both choices are painful but only one is therapeutic.
False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.
No matter how lovesick a woman is she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.
Decisions Determine the directions of your destiny
There is a gap between what we know and what we want to experience. Either, fear will keep us tethered to the familiar or plung us into the sea. The bridge is either God or ourselves, and with each bi...
Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.
The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more import...
Meaning bad isn't the issue. Meaning you do what you do. Not without consequences for other people, of course, sometimes very grave ones. But it's not very helpful to regard your choices as a series o...
However, what I do believe to genuinely sacred - and, indeed, more useful to the earth as a whole - is trying to ensure that there are as few unbalanced, destructive people as possible. By whatever ra...
Can't it be stopped? said Lina. She shifted around under her blanket, trying to find a place to sit where rocks weren't digging into her.Maybe it can be stopped at the beginning, Maddy said. If someon...
Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important t...
I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around on skateboards. But the actual writers I know are experts...
In order to understand why George W. Bush doesn't get it, you have to take several strands of common Texas attitude, then add an impressive degree of class-based obliviousness. What you end up with is...
Once a decision was made I did not worry about it afterward.
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
No one knows what he can to do until he tries.
A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself he is as a wave of the sea or a feather in the air which every breeze blows about.
Deliberation often loses a good chance.