“Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.”
                                        
                                        "Mars: Living in a Small Way" (p. 101). 
Metropolitan Life (1978)
                                    
“Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.”
                                        
                                        "Mars: Living in a Small Way" (p. 101). 
Metropolitan Life (1978)
                                    
“Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere”
                                        
                                         White House diary (11 February 1981) as quoted in "Reagan's diaries to be published", BBC News (2 May 2007) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6614077.stm 
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)
                                    
“…when you get a good night's sleep and wake up ready to produce throughout the day.”
Source: The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People (1989), p. 59