Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Lost time is never found again.

Begin with the end in mind.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

I tend not to look back and dwell on a project once it is finished.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

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

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

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.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

Never confuse motion with action.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

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.

There’s many a man has more hair than wit.

Time is bunk.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

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

The Internet is a big distraction.

Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

A home without books is a body without soul.

My biographers… would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided… to flip the order.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

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

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

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

I often work by avoidance.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.

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?

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

What one has to do usually can be done.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

Short cuts make long delays.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day’s work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

We record when I have a hole in the schedule. Sometimes night, sometimes afternoon, sometimes morning – we fit it in when we can. I prep for episodes all the time.

Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.

Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career – which is very short.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

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.

People see me on the street, and they point to me, and they’re like, ‚Hey! All right, all right, all right!‘

On the ‚Star,‘ you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.