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.

Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

You can turn over a new leaf every hour
if you choose.

The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.