If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.

Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty.

We're constantly making choices about the way we spend our time. The issue is not between the good and the bad, but between the good and the best. So often, the enemy of the best is the good.

Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.

The saddest of all tragedies - the wasted life

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

The time we lose is not in overdoing what we are about, but in doing nothing.

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can... . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the ore our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work