“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only ...” — Carl Sandburg Quote

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”

“I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.”

“I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.”

“To be a good loser is to learn how to win.”

“The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.”

“I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.”

“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.”

“I saw it from the beginning, when robots couldn't speak, to the end, when they stand between mankind and destruction. I will see no more. My life is over. You will see what comes next.”

“Every day people sleep, wake up, work, and eat according to the established set of rules we call time. In other words, we set our lives by the clock. Human beings went through the trouble of inventing rules that imposed limits on their lives, boxing them up into hours, days, and years. And then they invented clocks to make time’s rule over us even more precise.”

“Flowers wait for the perfect time,”

“There's chaos in stillness”

“Months are different in college, especially freshman year. Too much happens. Every freshman month equals six regular months—they're like dog months.”