People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

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

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

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

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

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

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

I can’t say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz I need.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

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

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn’t mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they’re happy if they do get it.

For me, there have been times when an action movie, even a ‚Tomb Raider,‘ has helped me get out of myself and be physical again. It’s like therapy.

It was easy being healthy when I was young. I was full of energy, so sports and physical challenges were fun. But as I got older and the spring left my step, exercise became harder, and eating, drinking and watching TV became easier. By the time I was 50, I’d put on 50 pounds.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Short cuts make long delays.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

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.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

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

Computers make me totally blank out.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

I don’t do meetings.

Without exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.

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

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.