The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.

Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.

Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.

I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless you give at least 45 minutes of careful, fatiguing reflection upon what you are reading, your minutes are chiefly wasted.

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.