Money, Moment, Relations

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.
~ W. Somerset Maugham

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don`t appreciate the moment until it's passed.
~ Kanye West

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
~ Jacques Delille

Struggles, Minds, Creativity

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.
~ W. Somerset Maugham

Great mind discuss ideas; Average minds, events; Small minds, people.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.
~ Ray Bradbury

Wealth, Life, Diplomacy

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
~ Epicurus, ancient Greek philosopher

It is a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
~ Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) English author

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
~ Robert Lee Frost

Good Nature, Quiet, Drug Testing

Commonsense and good nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of
life not too difficult.
~ William Somerset Maugham

To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that
ideas will have a chance of connecting.
~ Eric Maisil

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of
society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't
test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance,
greed and love of power.
~ P. J. O'Rourke

Forgiveness, the future, rules for writing

Forgive everyone for everything.
~ Advice

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)

There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
~ W. Somerset Maugham