A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Time passed: the mind rebuilds it's defenses.

Everything is possible through complete devotion to the Lord.

I have been able to help my friends and people that I believe in pay their bills and stay afloat in L.A. while following their dreams.

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

We recognize the universal power of music to touch the hearts of men and women everywhere and in all generations-to inspire and encourage, to sustain and lift, to comfort and bring peace.

Obviously Javy [Baez] is able to control his emotions, he plays it as it should be, it's a game. That's how he plays it.

Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

I don’t like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I’m alone with a good book.

My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.