...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.

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.

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.

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.

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.

I'm just doing the best I can now to keep this going... trying to grow up and remain young at the same time.

I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others.

I was rather a goody-goody as a child... It was only later on I discovered that you could be naughty and get away with it.

When I joined the Tour I studied the best players to see what they did that I didn't do. I came to the conclusion that the successful players had the Three Cs: Confidence, Composure, Concentration.

I'm just not going to spend a lot of political capital solving some other guy's problem in 2010.

I've still kind of maintained a low profile but people still kind of recognize you and will come up to you, and that's taken a bit of getting used to.

I still recall the excitement & patriotic fervour in Kargil when Tiger Hill was won.

I applaud what the Oscars are doing to promote diversity. I think it's great.