Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

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

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.

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

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

I’ve always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad.

Literally wrote ‚Starboy‘ in 30 minutes.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

Words are loaded pistols.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

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.

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

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

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Life well spent is long.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

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 empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don’t have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

Just on a practical side, if you wake up early in the morning – like at 4:30 in the morning – you’re going to have some free time to yourself to make things happen, to take care of things that are important to you.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

The kids are a big part of my schedule.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

When I write, when I’m going hot, I don’t want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you’re pushing it.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Now is the winter of our discontent.