Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

Make no mistake about why these babies are here – they are here to replace us.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

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.

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

I’m not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

Mozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.

‚Thursday‘ is a conceptual album. Whatever that situation was, I spent the whole album focusing on that situation.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn’t even know you’d done.

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

I’m not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I’ve flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.

Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career – which is very short.

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

When I finish something, I want it out that day. Pop music is like the daily paper. Its got to be there then, not six months later.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

I’m never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going.

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don’t have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

Time is bunk.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

Our life is made by the death of others.

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can’t do that. It’s gone, gone forever.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.