A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.
It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.
In the basketball world, guys like me, we tend to make bad decisions.
A lot of intelligent women make foolish choices.
The problem with life is, we often do things that will ultimately be self-destructive and make us unhappy, yet in that moment it seems like the best idea in the world. You have to be careful of moments - they're tricksy things.
Being young and dumb, honestly, you pick up some bad habits.
I'll probably be punished for hard living.
Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.
Life's full of opportunities to make crappy decisions that feel good. And after the first one, the rest get a whole lot easier.
Bad policy tends to be done in a rush.
I still got a few more dances with the devil...
When you're in your late teens, your hormones work overtime. You fall in love without thinking about the consequences.
Covering discretion with a coat of folly.
Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.
Even the simplest things, I'm guilty of making really bad decisions a lot of the time.
