As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

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.

‚Fame‘ exhausts me.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

Exercise is really important to me – it’s therapeutic. So if I’m ever feeling tense or stressed or like I’m about to have a meltdown, I’ll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.

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.

Beware the hobby that eats.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

The first wealth is health.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

I have so many designs and video ideas and lyrics in my head, so I always try to be productive.

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.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

My body is weird. I wake up when the sun comes up, and it’s hard for me to go to sleep. My thoughts just take over.

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

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

I’m addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

Mothers and daughters generally have fairly complex relationships, and ours was made much more so by Mother’s illness. She had Parkinson’s disease, which was not diagnosed for a long time… All that made me very self-protective, because for one thing, I didn’t want to get trapped.

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

I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.

If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write.

About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

I just don’t have time to get old!

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

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.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

I’ve had sleep paralysis.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution – they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

So many writers don’t like to write… I like to write, and sometimes I’m afraid I like it too much, because when I get into work, I don’t want to leave it. And as a result, I’ll go for days and days and days without leaving my house.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

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