A complete and accurately defined list of projects, kept current and reviewed on at least a weekly basis, is a master key to stress-free productivity.

My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard

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

There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.

Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax

Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.

Once a week, do a thorough review of all your projects in as much detail as you need to. If you do, your systems will work. If you don't, no system will work.

Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion.

You can do anything, but not everything.

Small things done consistently, in strategic places, create major impact.

Most people move actually into high performance in a crisis because that creates the kind of focus that creates high performance.

I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me.

The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.

When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions.

What makes that song, I think, is how stark it is.

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

I cannot live without people. I need to live my life with others.

My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly which affects every interest in the country

No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.

I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.