Most procrastination is largely indecision. Someone has said that "hell is just truth seen too late."

Building a successful life is much like building anything else: it should be thoroughly thought about in advance and then carried through to completion.

Punctuality is closely related to faithfulness and dependability. Being tardy can be linked to uninterest, apathy, slothfulness and procrastination.

The best way to improve our lives is to improve our thoughts.

All temptations can be handled easily when we know how, because no temptation is a temptation at all unless we are entertaining it.

It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself.

Those who wallow around in the sickness of their immorality and degeneracy get very little joy out of life here and certainly not much promise is held out for them hereafter.

Satan has no power over us except as we give it to him. God never forces us to do right, and Satan has no power to force us to do wrong.

Perhaps punctuality is a quality made even more valuable because it is found in so few people. Punctuality is not usually thought of in our day as a major virtue.

We insist on near perfection in everyone except ourselves. But if our course is questioned we become offended.

If I were asked to give the best idea of which I am capable, it would be that we should get out of the junk business and then start laying up treasures in heaven.

The only difference between falling in love and being in love is that your heart already knows how you feel, but your mind is too stubborn to admit it.

I wanted that future officer to weigh decisions with a supple mind and to be comfortable with nuance and uncertainty.

...she fell into a long sleep, and dreamed he dreams of the dream tree.

As the son of a racing car designer and mechanical engineer, I was exposed to motorsports from day one.

Happiness may be difficult to obtain. The obstacles are not primarily financial.

An angel is a nonphysical being who has no ego - so we know angels are not human. An angel is a pure essence of the Creator's desire to connect with human beings.

Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require.

Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.

Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.