Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

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

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.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

I like to do things quickly because I’m easily bored.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

Did you know there’s a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy – running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything – is the same as wasting your time? It’s frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

I can write a song in about an hour if it’s a simple country song.

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I’ve seen the profound impact he’s had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

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.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

I read all the time, and I’m often struck by something I’m reading.

I think that success is having fun.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

Hope is a waking dream.

I really want a movie made on Sachin Tendulkar’s life. That is something I’m looking forward to. There will be so much emotion to that movie.

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

Art is the proper task of life.

We based the look on rock ‚n roll right from the beginning.

I’m inspired by Walt Disney. I’m inspired by Howard Hughes. I’m inspired by Henry Ford. I’m inspired by Steve Jobs. I mean, I’m inspired by James Perse.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

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

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

We must use time creatively.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

When I write, when I’m going hot, I don’t want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you’re pushing it.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

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

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Friends are thieves of time.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

I guess I’m just inspired to tell stories.

I usually don’t like to ‚spoon feed‘ my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.