It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech.

It gave an appalling idea of the value of an hour, and I thought I could never waste one again without remorse and terror.

It takes three weeks to prepare a good ad-lib speech.

The spider looks for the merchant who doesn't advertise so he can spin a web across his door and lead a life of undisturbed peace.

We were building several lines of railway, and our line from Camelot to London was already finished and in operation.

No problem is solved when we idly wait for God to undertake full responsibility.

To attempt radical reform without adequate organization is like trying to sail a boat without a rudder.

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

to be superior (überlegen) to others in real life, the indispensable condition is to be thoughtful and deliberate (überlegt), in other words, to set to work in accordance with concepts.

Think with the end in mind. Before you go on a trip, you determine your destination and plan out the best route. Before you plant a garden, you plan it out in your mind, possibly on paper. You create speeches on paper before you give them, you envision the landscaping in your yard before you landscape it. You design the clothes you make before you thread the needle.

The strongest force in the universe is Compound Interest.

Two changes manifested themselves right away: the first was a new attitude toward money, the second toward time.