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.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

Don’t program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.

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.

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

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.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you’ll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

I’d have to be superman to do some of the things I’m supposed to have done, I’ve been at six different places at six different times.

Energy begets energy.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

I can have people around a lot more because I’m not always chasing them away so I can work on my novel. My non-novel, I mean.

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.

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

I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.

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.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

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

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

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

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

I’ve been running a lot, taking care of myself.

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

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.

I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.

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.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can’t stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

Delay is preferable to error.

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

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

You don’t always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that’s plenty.

The moment someone asks you to do something you don’t have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.

A little over 5% of the world’s population produces almost 29% of the world’s goods and services.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

Action expresses priorities.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

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.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

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

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.

I often work by avoidance.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Discipline starts every day when the first alarm clock goes off in the morning. I say ‚first alarm clock‘ because I have three, as I was taught by one of the most feared and respected instructors in SEAL training: one electric, one battery powered, one windup.