When we have heartbeat and brain waves, we refuse to accept it as the presence of life - this lack of logic of which we approach this issue because we like and we favor convenience over ethics. We favor convenience over the hard parts of life that actually make us grow.
Discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons
If you and your child were going to be killed tomorrow, would you not give him to eat today?
There are simple answers to the nation's problems, but not easy ones.
Always do the right thing even when the right thing is the hard thing
All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
As much as it's sometimes hard to make choices about where you invest, it's equally hard to make choices about where you don't invest and what you eliminate.
CEOs make hard decisions; sometimes, the least worst is the right one.
Early in my career I had to be a goon to survive. I did everything I had to do and probably some things I shouldn't have.
I've been on the other end of sticky decisions, have been the 'B' side, but I never go in there thinking, 'Is this going to go against me?'
The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.
But only a candidate who rejects wishful thinking, has the courage to tell the truth about the options in front of us and who will address Brexit on the basis of the hard realities will succeed.
Every life has forks in the road. And sometimes, the tines of that fork stab deep.
Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
One of the toughest things about life is making choices. I had a hard time saying 'no' to a bunch of other excellent possibilities.
I'm beginning to think the only choice anyone has in life is between either a bad choice or a worse one.
It’s less important to have unanimity than it is making the right decisions and doing the right thing, even though at the outset it might be loathsome.
Necessity urges desperate measures.
Sometimes you have to abandon your own children for other children.
Sometimes compromise is painful.
Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
People want to give everybody a pass, but leadership comes at a price.
It was a difficult decision to say no twice to Barcelona. It was never a secret that I have admired them since I was a kid and that I always wished I could play for Barcelona. But life is made of hard decisions that sometimes go against what you dream of.
Sadly, far too many politicians in Washington lack the courage to do something to fix our problems. They are worried about the political implications of making the hard choices we so desperately need to cut spending and shrink government.
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
