I don’t have maids or servants, and my husband and I love waking up early and going to the 24-hour supermarket when there is nobody else there.

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 have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

Discipline starts every day when the first alarm clock goes off in the morning. I say ‚first alarm clock‘ because I have three, as I was taught by one of the most feared and respected instructors in SEAL training: one electric, one battery powered, one windup.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don’t want to be a colony in a nation.

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.

I don’t care if you get up in the morning and don’t wash, don’t put any make-up on, don’t do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.

I don’t have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

Art was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ‚How is the president?‘

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

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.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

Never get out of bed before noon.

The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

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

For me, training is my meditation, my yoga, hiking, biking all rolled into one. Wake up early in the morning, generally around 4 o’clock, and I’ll do my cardio on an empty stomach. Stretch, have a big breakfast, and then I’ll go train.

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent’s house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you’re going to have.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

As a father and now a grandfather to three wonderful grandchildren, I know how magical the first year of a child’s life is but also how much hard work it takes. Being able to spend as much time as possible with your loved ones is absolutely vital, especially early on.

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.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

Just be a cool grandpa who’s creative, and hang out and tell stories and read a book in the library.

I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don’t allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.

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

The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

I’m an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.

I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.

Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.

My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.

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

The Sabbath provides a wonderful opportunity to strengthen family ties.

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

What I like to do is get the family in the pick-up truck… and then we just go for a drive. That’s it!

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.

For me, it’s enough that I have the first and last word.

I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It’s not heavy. I don’t have skeletons in the closet on their way out.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

I like being with my family. That’s my party.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

I am confident that nobody… will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

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.