Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

We must use time creatively.

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.

‚9 to 5,‘ that little song, that little story, just won’t ever end. Just like ‚I Will Always Love You,‘ it just keeps comin‘ back, popping up its head in one way or another.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

Each day provides its own gifts.

I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don’t allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.

If I forget to pray, I can’t get through the day without snapping at people.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

There’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

I don’t do meetings.

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

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

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

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

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

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

The Internet is a big distraction.

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

I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

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 only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

I’m addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

Well begun is half done.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you’re doing good in my book.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

I’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.