Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

I’d have to be superman to do some of the things I’m supposed to have done, I’ve been at six different places at six different times.

Action expresses priorities.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of having to drop things into individual folders, and things exist only in one folder, you create these search folders and you have the criteria for the search folder.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

True Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habits of birds and animals, and therefore they understand them and are more in sympathy with them.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies.

Delay is preferable to error.

I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

Man is a universe within himself.

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

Computers make me totally blank out.

Judas betrayed Jesus. Lady Red betrayed John Dillinger. Those things happen.

You can’t trust very many people.

We’re one of the only animals in the world that don’t really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

God’s first creature, which was light.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

I always have to be writing.

Friends are thieves of time.

I tend not to look back and dwell on a project once it is finished.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.

In whatever adulation you get, there’s truth and there’s not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible – there’s truth and there’s not truth. It’s human nature to like to read the adulation more.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.