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.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

One of the things people don’t really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they’re celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

Someone once asked me, ‚How long does it take to do your hair.‘ I said, ‚I don’t know, I’m never there.‘

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

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

I am so busy doing nothing… that the idea of doing anything – which as you know, always leads to something – cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

I don’t know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way – all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup – all the time. When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

All the time, I’ve felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn’t.

I don’t watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched ‚The King’s Speech‘ on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

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.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

I like to take it easy.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

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

We still have many neighborhoods that are racially identified. We still have many schools that even though the days of state-enforced segregation are gone, segregation because of geographical boundaries remains.

To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we’re probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn’t exist. TV didn’t exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

If you want to be more productive, then start at the start: get there on time. Whether it is a meeting, a flight, an appointment or a date, it’s important to ensure you are there when you say you will be there. This may feel like an old-fashioned tip to give, but it has served me well for five decades in business.

A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

You can’t take care of charity unless you take care of yourself first.

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I’ve got books I need to read.

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don’t have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

I’m well past the age where I’m acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You’re not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you’re not going to get played on radio and you’re not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

I live half the year on Necker, a tiny island in the Caribbean, and it’s always full of people in party mode. Everyone comes up to the big house, and we’ll be dancing until the early hours to the island’s band, the Front Line.

It’s tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I’m wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.

I think I don’t take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it’s a fun life. I take my music serious, but I like to have fun.

Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Love can do much, but duty more.

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Rap was my drug.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

I’m in a rare position where I don’t have to do job after job. I can take time when my family needs it.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

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.