First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes.

I have wasted my hours.

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

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

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

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.

I always have breakfast, say, scrambled egg whites, a vegetable smoothie, or whole-grain cereal with low-fat milk. For lunch and dinner, I eat a lot of fish and vegetables. And throughout the day, I try to stay hydrated.

Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.

Spend more time in study and prayer. That’s the secret of successful evangelism.

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

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?

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

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.

All great achievements require time.

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

Time is bunk.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something 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.

Whenever I counsel someone who feels called to be an evangelist, I always urge them to guard their time and not feel like they have to do everything.

The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.

We’re the only animal that wakes up and doesn’t stretch.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

My hair is not really white; it’s kind of grayish, and I don’t like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my hair is always clean.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

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

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

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.

What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?

It seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‚What the hell am I doing?‘

Time is the least thing we have of.

Most people don’t have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.

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

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny. And wonderful.

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

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘

I’ve always put everybody else’s child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.