The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
When there's an opportunity to do more, we must.
In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that.
Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth, and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires freedom and courage and the plural contributions of many different kinds of people who must maintain their individuality while giving to the group.
Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.
Arresting and detaining these dangerous people can make sense, at least until a final decision is reached on their deportation. However, such detention must always be subject to time limits and court review.
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.
There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
I must confess, I was born at a very early age.
We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.
You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.
Pictures may serve as helps to religion but are only an appendix to idolatry, for the people must be taught to believe in false gods and in the power of saints before they will learn to worship their images.
The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things education must try to produce.
As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again.
Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility.
Her old Grannie and subject must be the first to kiss her hand.
You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.
You manifest based on who you are already - so you must own the identity of the dream in order to manifest it.
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods. And to do that, we must understand that the quality of life is more important than the standard of living.
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it.
The government has made $44 trillion in promises we can't afford to keep. We must get serious now about our long-term budgetary problems, recognizing that the sooner we act, the less painful the choices will be.
That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.
In order for a society to survive, it must generate a sufficient level of physical production both to meet its current needs, and to produce a surplus for upgrading its productive powers.
The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it's really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.
It certainly must help us if we recognize that it is the presence of the Holy Spirit which creates a unity which we can never create.
You must respect people and work hard to be in shape. And I used to train very hard. When the others players went to the beach after training, I was there kicking the ball.
Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to.
Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.
We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease.
