The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

I installed a skylight in my apartment… the people who live above me are furious!

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

I know a dramatic role is going to happen, but you just got to be patient, you know? It’s going to happen when it’s supposed to happen. I’m not rushing it. I’m not trying to make it happen tomorrow.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support – a significant problem in the software industry.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

I’m a practical person. I’m not too bad a carpenter. I can renovate houses.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

I have a lot of other stuff to accomplish before I get to kids. Whenever the time is right, I’ll just know. If I had a girl, she’d probably be really rebellious. She would be like a bundle of karma. I would love to bring them up in Barbados.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

Plumbers can be masters, the guy who did my patio is a master, some people are masters at raising really great children.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Comedy isn’t necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it’s a question of timing, of the proper rhythm.

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

There’s an urgent need to stop reacting to each immediate vexing issue in isolation. Such response often creates unanticipated second-order effects and even more problems for us.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

Almost anything can be funny if said the right way – but it has to be said the right way.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the ‚right‘ thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

The time is always right to do what is right.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

It’s very interesting, the joke comes first and then the wording comes within five seconds, maybe ten seconds. My thing is to get the joke across in as few words as possible. However, sometimes a word that’s not really needed does help the rhythm of it. It’s a gut feeling.

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.