El valor del tiempo

“There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later.”

“In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car.”

“This moment will just be another story someday.”

“If you look back, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven were mixing music and humor all the time.”

“I knew, however, that the next morning after the fight I would have to get away, and I did just in time, for a full company came early to look for me and were furious because I had escaped them.”

“Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave.”

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”

“The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.”

“The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.”

“I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.”

“There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.”

“Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.”

“Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone.”

“The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.”

“I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.”

“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”

“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”

“Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.”

“Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.”

“Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.”

“The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.”

“At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.”

“I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?”

“From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”

“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”

“At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers.”

“So many books, so little time.”

“I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.”

“Therefore don't be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day's own evil is sufficient.”

“I'm a dad now and whatever I'm doing in life I usually put a lot of effort into it - usually too much effort, so it kind of comes off ridiculous at times.”