“Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.”

“I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.”

“Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.”

“As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.”

“Life well spent is long.”

“… for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long.”

“Whether you are in a toxic relationship, or you wish to make that ‘final decision’ which will change your life, you must not, at any cost, allow the time to pass while sitting idle.”

“Life is too long to be good at C++ – if you had spent all that time to become good at it, you would essentially have to work with it, too, to get back the costs, and that would just be some long, drawn-out torture.”

“It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!”

“In any event, mere speed is not a test of justice. Deliberate speed is. Deliberate speed takes time. But it is time well spent.”