The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

Rest assured," said Hercule Poirot. "I am the best!

When you read the account of a murder - or, say, a fiction story based on murder - you usually begin with the murder itself. That's all wrong. The murder begins a long time beforehand. A murder is the culmination of a lot of different circumstances, all converging at a given moment at a given point. People are brought into it from different parts of the globe and for unforeseen reasons. [...] The murder itself is the end of the story. It's Zero Hour.”

He paused.

“It's Zero Hour now.

It's the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done

The best time is always yesterday.

Now's the best time you'll ever have in life to get ahead!