Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

I am results-oriented.

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter – for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.

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

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

I never had to choose a subject – my subject rather chose me.

I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can’t make something that is always breathtaking, or you would never be able to breathe. You would collapse.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

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

Every day is a major balancing act that I have to figure out and coordinate.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.

Please don’t ask me to do that which I’ve just said I’m not going to do, because you’re burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn’t bother me. Because most of my favorite writers do that, to hunt down the same topic or theme from different directions each time.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

One element of Madonna’s career that really takes center stage is how many times she’s reinvented herself. It’s easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It’s inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

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.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

I’m very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don’t have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I’ve never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page.

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.