And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful through the season. There are so many people songwriters who are around.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked not to be endured with patient resignation.

I feel sorry... for people who've had skinny privilege and then have it taken away from them. I have had a lifetime to adjust to seeing how people treat women who aren't their idea of beautiful and therefore aren't their idea of useful and I had to find ways to become useful to myself.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made.

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

The attention of a traveller should be particularly turned in the first place to the various works of Nature to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.

We shall never have more time. We have and always had all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.