Time is the least thing we have of.

I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

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

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

Money ain’t everything.

In twenty years I’ve never had a day when I didn’t have to think about someone else’s needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.

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

If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

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

I’ve been on a calendar, but I’ve never been on time.

I’ve always put everybody else’s child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.

I don’t have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast – talk them or write them down.

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.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you’re really tired. It’s my relaxing time.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

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

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of having to drop things into individual folders, and things exist only in one folder, you create these search folders and you have the criteria for the search folder.

It seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‚What the hell am I doing?‘

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

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

I’m a day-to-day-type person.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you’re going to have.

My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

The future is purchased by the present.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

I’ve never had writer’s block.

I’ve spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.