You can get your time and your life under control only to the degree to which you discontinue lower-value activities.

People who take a long view of their lives and careers always seem to make much better decisions about their time and activities than people who give very little thought to the future.

The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous.

...you cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.

If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first."This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first.

The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actually begin work on a valuable task, you seem to be naturally motivated to continue.

One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.

The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not lack of ability and lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.

A nation’s people must love each other, otherwise there will remain no nation! The world’s nations must love each other otherwise there will remain no world!

Keep your promises to yourself.

I love the romcom. I thought I had a career playing the best friend. What happened to that? It's really sad to me.

Before long, I'll have my own channel - I'll be like Barney.

Even though I had a good income from my lectures, no one would give me a loan. The insanity almost drove me to sympathize with the feminist movement.

One plus one equals both.

The jobs don't get married. The people get married.

I feel like I'm only in the beginning of my career. I've only made five albums. It's not a lot.

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.