“One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day.”

In all planning you make a list and you set priorities.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.

Keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day.

You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let’s say you desire security.

Review our priorities, ask the question; what’s the best use of our time right now?

You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities.

In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.

I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day to day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one can laugh. Indeed, one has to laugh precisely because of the darkness: the nervous laughter of the trenches.

I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.

When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.

Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.

The first matter that the slave will be brought to account for on the Day of Judgment is the prayer.

Anyone who’s had a shower and hasn’t ingested illegal narcotics within a couple of days stands out on a bench in the courthouse.

Don’t I yearn for the days when a draw across the throat made f**king resolution.