“Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you do not let other people spend it for you.”

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”

“Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”

“A man must find time for himself. Time is what we spend our lives with. If we are not careful we find others spending it for us. . . . It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?' . . . If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time—the stuff of life.”

“Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.”

“In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning”

“Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it runs by.”