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

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents‘ boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing ‚Amazing Stories,‘ with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination.

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

I know that I came into the world with what I call ‚big dharma‘ – with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

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 am results-oriented.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

The moment I said I’d finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who’d got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I’d written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

I don’t even know how to speak up for myself, because I don’t really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

I can be a cruel person.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

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

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That’s what I’ve done.

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

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

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.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

I’m a writer, not a professional runner. It’s fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

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.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

I have so many designs and video ideas and lyrics in my head, so I always try to be productive.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

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

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

How well he’s read, to reason against reading!

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

I don’t look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I – personally, I’m not interested in my own past. I’m only interested in today – perhaps tomorrow.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

I try to lead by example, being conscious of others and being responsible.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

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.

Computers make me totally blank out.

I don’t read books much.

Writing is fun – at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That’s easy to manage.

Few people realize that luck is created.

I’ve learned through my own relationship with God that He’s not expecting me to be perfect; He wants me to do my best to be in His will and take steps of faith as He leads me, through His Word and the promptings He speaks to my heart.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it’s not about the money.