If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

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

If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life. I've often walked when I could very well afford to take a taxi because I simply couldn't bring myself to waste the shilling it would cost.

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.

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.

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.