"Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer."

Scott, Sir Walter on New Year
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"Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time."

Doisneau, Robert on Luck
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"To save time is to lengthen life."

Unknown, Source on Time and Time Management
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"Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time."

Mead, Margaret on Life and Living
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"Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive."

Benson, Stella on Family
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"The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Family
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"Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians."

Bohn, H. G. on Doctors
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"Character is the sum and total of a person's choices."

Fitzwater, P. B. on Character
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on Change
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"Youth comes but once in a lifetime."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on Youth
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"When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart."

Proverb, Russian on Judgment and Judges
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"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on Judgment and Judges
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"We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions."

Percy, Ian on Judgment and Judges
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"Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Character
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"The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you."

Rogers, Will on Adversity
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"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."

Wooden, John on Attitude
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"Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will."

Nehru, Jawaharlal on Will and Will Power
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"The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out; it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility."

Hoffer, Eric on America
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"The busier we are the more leisure we have."

Hazlitt, William on Leisure
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"In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are."

Ovid on Leisure
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"They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure."

Melville, Herman on Leisure
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"Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philter, it is also the leisurely act of drinking."

Barthes, Roland on Alcohol and Alcoholism
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"Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money."

Unknown, Source on Money
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"Time will take your money, but money won't buy time."

Taylor, James on Time and Time Management
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"Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time."

Rohn, Jim on Time and Time Management
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"The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons."

Hewitt, George T. on Life and Living
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"Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up."

Watson, Thomas J. on Friends and Friendship
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"Leisure time should be an occasion for deep purpose to throb and for ideas to ferment. Where a man allows leisure to slip without some creative use, he has forfeited a bit of happiness."

Strait, C. Neil on Leisure
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