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

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

I’ve actually not read any books on time management.

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

The moment someone asks you to do something you don’t have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.

Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

Beware the hobby that eats.

What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

I don’t have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

I’m very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can’t stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

I’m just a kid – I’ve got a lot of stuff to do yet.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

People see me on the street, and they point to me, and they’re like, ‚Hey! All right, all right, all right!‘

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

I think the reason I don’t read is because, when I’m reading, I feel like I’m missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where’s my girlfriend?

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

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.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.