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.

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.

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

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.

At the end few things matter more than how well you loved those who love you. Love and honor your family.

In the process of looking at broken paths, we often forget the lights that illuminates that path.

WHILE writing, just try to have fun with your ms. Enjoy the process, but push on. Always push toward the finish line!

Resolve to be thyself ... he who finds himself loses his misery!

One of the most adventurous things left is to go to bed for no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.

I don't talk to anybody about my personal life, and maybe that perpetuates it, too. But it's really important to own what you want to own and keep it to yourself.

Why was so much evil pleasant, pretty on the outside, like poisoned candy?

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

All I'm trying to do is make music that people like and that makes people happy.