Time

Ah, fill the cup: what boots it to repeat how time is slipping underneath our feet: Unborn tomorrow and dead yesterday, why fret about them if today be sweet!

The moving finger writes, and having writ, moves on.

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

The beginning is always today.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

The best time to start promoting your book is three years before it comes out.

The work of justice and compassion is never finished; it is a continuous journey.

This industry gives out this really dangerous message to women, which is: You can't age.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

The past resembles the future more than one drop of water resembles another.

In the beginning of the dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of the dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue from large assessments.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

I am enriched by my convent, by the present, by the future, by Italy, by England.

Perfection is the child of time.