To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.

Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.

If we did realize the difference between the vital few and the trivial many in all aspects of our lives, and if we did something about it, we could multiply anything that we valued.

80% of the results come from 20% of the causes. A few things are important; most are not.

The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied.

Hard work leads to low returns. Insight and doing what we want lead to high returns.

The 80/20 principle - that 80 percent of result flow from just 20 per cent of the causes - is the one true principle of highly effective people.

What could you achieve that would make you proud, that no one else could do with the same ease?

It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in low-quality ways.

Celebrate exceptional productivity, rather than raise average efforts.

The key is to work out the few things that are really important, and the few methods that will give us what we really want.

I'm sure you could have. Fending off unwanted male attention is a skill every attractive woman must acquire. But you're also a lady who was reluctant to cause a scene.. (Hammond Cross)

You should dream more, Mr. Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Freedom without limits is when you choose to be a Bondman for "JESUS".... Sounds funny but it is the fact as well as the Truth

I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

When you have done the rashest thing in the world it is very pleasant to be told that no man of spirit could have acted otherwise.

The key to being with family is to engage with those we love in a way we would teach to those we love.

Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.

The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.

Unraveling the web of Penelope.

If I were as good at praying as I am at not praying I'd be really holy.