I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.

For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.