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.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

Most people sleep themselves stupid.

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.

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.