The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

We who follow the teachings of Elijah Muhammad don’t want to be forced to integrate. Integration is wrong. We don’t want to live with the white man; that’s all.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

I don’t take pictures when I’m with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It’s important when you’re as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you’re with them, and nothing compromises that. I’ve been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.

Time is the least thing we have of.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

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.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others‘ negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.

Did you know there’s a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy – running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything – is the same as wasting your time? It’s frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

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?

I’m not a nerd, obviously. Do I look like one? I’m not someone who sits at home and doesn’t like to go out, doesn’t like to watch movies. I like to live my life.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

You don’t have to turn on the TV set. You don’t have to work on the Internet. It’s up to you.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

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

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

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

Better never than late.

Action expresses priorities.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

I read to my kid, but I can’t stand reading.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

Lost time is never found again.

I know I’m more on television, and I’m more recognisable than maybe even the players because they run and train, but I just stand there, and my face does all these funny things that everyone can see all the time.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego – its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

The world has crafted a beautiful balance of collective action – common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabilities.

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories.

Hundreds of people who’ve never written before send in ‚Dr. Who‘ scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

I love being busy.