“5423. Waste makes Want.”

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are”

“Roger tried to find out all about her: he wanted, in one brief hour, to make up for a lifetime of non-acquaintance, a lifetime for all practical purposes wasted.”

“Dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.”

“100 years ago, buying something you could make was considered wasteful; now making something you could buy is considered wasteful. I am not convinced this is a step in the right direction.”

“Wasting one's time is one way of occupying it, not wasting time is also another way of occupying it, and not to mind going on wasting time even knowing that it is a waste of time is also another way of occupying it. … I have well understood life, and therefore I can do what I naturally want to do. To do what I naturally want to do is also a way of occupying time.”

“Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; waste nothing.”

“If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste.”

“The optimist will never say that he's unemployed. But he will claim that he has full freedom to do anything he wants. He can choose whether to make money or waste his VALUABLE time.”