It's never the right time to take a particular stand.

One can't realize difficulty arriving at a momentous decision until one comes to do so.

Somewhere along the line of our development we discover what we really are, and then we make our decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's life.

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

Decide, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a decision but an error in judgment. When a bunch of people begin to do it, it is a social error, a life-style.

Once a change of direction has begun, even though it's the wrong one, it still tends to clothe itself as thoroughly in the appurtenances of Tightness as if it had been a natural all along.

In whatever arena of life one may meet the challenge of courage, whatever may be the sacrifices he faces if he follows his conscience-the loss of his friends, his fortune, his contentment, even the esteem of his fellow men-each man must decide for himself the course he will follow.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.