Part of executive functions is the ability to look to a goal deadline and assess where an organization is in meeting it.

I'm a very methodical writer. Before computers, I used reams of paper and stacks of index cards.

It was a dream of mine to be in an action film.

Delay is preferable to error.

Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.

Mostly, they are deceptive sweetenings of existence, like speedier communications which unpleasantly accelerate the tempo of life and leave us with less time than ever before. Omnis festinatio ex parte diaboli est—all haste is of the devil, as the old masters used to say.

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

She accused him of having grandiose ideas and sloppy habits, a fatal combination for a writer.

Fourth of July picnic. And by the way, that picnic, like everything else in this land, is a model of efficiency: you drive at top speed, set up in a previously reserved space, spread out the baskets, bolt your food, kick the ball, and rush home to avoid the traffic. In Chile, a similar project would take three days.

When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy.