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

If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

I would venture to guess that the biggest reason creative types don’t produce isn’t because they don’t have vision… or talent… in most cases, it’s a lack of discipline.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it’s just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

I never look at my watch when I’m sketching!

I’m the only person you’ve ever met who has read Longfellow.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a little too easy to say that.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

Training and resting takes up most of my time.

I’m one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you’re doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

Folks, you’re the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it’s one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

I think it’s OK to be confident in yourself.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

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.

If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy – which many believe goes hand in hand with it – will be dead as well.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

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.

I would never want a book’s autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

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.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

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