"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a cross-roads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly." - Woody Allen, Side Effects

"It is the advantage and the nature of the strong that they can bring crucial issues to the fore and take a clear position regarding them. The weak always have to choose between alternatives that are not their own." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison

"The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice." - George Eliot, Daniel Deronda

"Give your decisions, never your reasons. Your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong." - W. Murray, Earl of Mansfield

"Quick decisions are unsafe decisions." - Sophocles

"The die is cast." - JULIUS CAESAR, quoted by Suetonius in Lives of the Caesars; said by Julius Caesar upon deciding to c

"If someone tells you he is going to make a realistic decision, you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad." - MARY MCCARTHY, On the Contrary

"It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions." - MARCEL PROUST, Remembrance of Things Past: Within a Budding Grove

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I.... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." - Frost, Robert in 'The Road Not Taken'

"Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the Ready-Aim-Aim-Aim Syndrome. You must be willing to fire." - Pickins, T. Boone