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

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

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

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

The best customer service is if the customer doesn’t need to call you, doesn’t need to talk to you. It just works.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

I’m not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

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.

I have wasted my hours.

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

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

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

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

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

We cannot learn men from books.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

I’m bloody awful at multi-tasking.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

I’m never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going.

When I finish something, I want it out that day. Pop music is like the daily paper. Its got to be there then, not six months later.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, ‚Joey, the guy in Olyphant’s out of work, it’s an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law’s out of work, it’s a recession. When you’re out of work, it’s a depression.‘

Error is always more busy than truth.