You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that in itself is a choice.

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up – that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never.'

In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

A year from now you may wish you had started today.

If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Think of many things; do one.

Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal scene.

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favour of holding meetings.

Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

How wonderful it is, that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

It is not really work if you are having fun.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

Ultimately its a sense of camaraderie and friendship with local people that is core to my journeys.

Happiness comes from your thoughts; it resides inside you. To be happy, have happy thoughts, whatever you do.

I really love flying, but it's really nice to jump on a plane, sit back, and let someone else do the heavy lifting, but flying is my main passion for sure.

Young people should travel, and they don't. You can't know if you don't go.

I could have gone to a bigger school. I use it as motivation going to a school that loved me. I wanted to put them on the map and show everyone that you don't need to go to a top school to make it in the NBA.

I think that the important thing to consider here - Hubert Humphrey said that a society is measured by how he treats those in the dawn of life, those in the shadows of life, and those in the twilight of life. And it is true that Terri Schiavo lives among us in the shadows of life, but she is not brain dead. She feels pain.

Be satisfied with your business, and learn to love what you were bred to.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

Desire presses ever forward unsubdued.

At Christmas all roads lead home.

Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's something incredibly musically satisfying about their songs. Nothing has diminished my love for them.

The most important thing I have learned from the people I've worked with is that you have to love what you do. That passion will drive you anywhere you want to go.

The thing that surprised me the most is just how much money women that weren't rich were paying for their hair. When you're in a beauty parlor in Harlem next to abandoned buildings and somebody's paying five grand for a weave, that's a bit much.

Only by pride comes contention but with the well advised is wisdom.

Some people are averse to change, but the advertising model is going to change with or without the Hopper. What we're saying to the broadcasters is, 'There's a way for you not to put your head in the sand.'

Back when I was young, lists seemed like fences on the open range. But secretly, I was pleased to be corralled among other literary thoroughbreds.

Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.

When I am not acting or performing, I want to keep quiet and not to have a conversation.

At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being.

The sensation of energy expands with increasing relaxation.

There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.

The atheist is cheating whenever he makes a moral judgment, acting as though it has an objective reference, when his philosophy in fact precludes it.