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 time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

The Bible is full of warnings about false prophets and false messiahs. These satanically inspired people have appeared in almost every generation of history.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

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

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

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.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

We must use time creatively.

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts.

I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.

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

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.

I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

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

Any other woman who has to go to work and pick up the kids and make dinner – that’s way harder than what I have to do.

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.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‚Let us pray.‘ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

I am results-oriented.

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

If you want to be more productive, then start at the start: get there on time. Whether it is a meeting, a flight, an appointment or a date, it’s important to ensure you are there when you say you will be there. This may feel like an old-fashioned tip to give, but it has served me well for five decades in business.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

In my father’s generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I’m wearing.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

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

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.

Part of my daily regime is my glucosamine and, of course, a multitude of multivitamins. Branched-chain amino acids, glutamine, of course protein. I have one protein shake a day, and that is immediately after my training.

When asked, ‚How do you write?‘ I invariably answer, ‚one word at a time.‘

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

The Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

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.

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

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

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.

At the end of the day, I pray for the best.

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.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I’ll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I’m crepuscular.

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.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

What one has to do usually can be done.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

He that rises late must trot all day.

I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

Working out anchors my day.