Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains if we will only stop the waste and the idle useless regretting.

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.

Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words.

Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.

That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.

I pulled back and stared up into his eyes. "You're gettin' very deep on me."Alec's hands gripped my behind. "I'll be getting very deep in you if you keep looking at me like that

The most significant thing is public participation. That assures the Afghan public that our promises are not empty.

Change is one of my favourite words.

I didn't know that my sister was really my mother until I was thirty-seven years old. But life has taught me that there have been a lot of things that I didn't know.

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

Economics exists to make astrology look respectable.

In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

It's not a question of whether the transition from old to the new goals, practices and metrics is going to happen. It's already under way.

Cyberspace is where you are when you're on the telephone.