He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

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.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

This young century will be liberty’s century.

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

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.

I have the space and liberty to create.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

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

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

I am results-oriented.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

I’ve actually not read any books on time management.

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

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you’re really tired. It’s my relaxing time.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona – no lime. If the phone rings, I won’t answer until I’m done.

I am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

A little over 5% of the world’s population produces almost 29% of the world’s goods and services.

I like to work and am a focused person.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas… cultures… and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word ‚freedom‘ means than I see much evidence of in America.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

When I write, when I’m going hot, I don’t want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you’re pushing it.

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

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.

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

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

I like to do things quickly because I’m easily bored.

We can’t equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.