Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

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.

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.

I realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

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.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

Beware the hobby that eats.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

I’m in a rare position where I don’t have to do job after job. I can take time when my family needs it.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

I can have people around a lot more because I’m not always chasing them away so I can work on my novel. My non-novel, I mean.

My biographers… would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided… to flip the order.

I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don’t live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that’s your body.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

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

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

People who work for me know that family comes first. And I’m fortunate to have a family that is very supportive of the work I do, so I don’t have to live two separate lives.

I love making music. That’s what I love to do. So I don’t feel like there’s any need to take a break unless I want to.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

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

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

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

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

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.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

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

I notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much time on their lives, I don’t have much of a personal life of my own. I have to sort of remember to fill out that little notebook on me.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

I often work by avoidance.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

The first thing I look forward to when I am in Delhi is to spend some time with my family. It’s always lovely coming back here and playing in front of my own people. It’s just a special place.

I like to let things breathe.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Starting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

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

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.