You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.
One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!" And a little later you added: "You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..." "Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?" But the little prince made no reply.
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent.
I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset.
The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.