As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word.

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.

that which deludes you to be unhappy can be overpowered by another delusion that causes greater unhappiness

Pity the meek for they shall inherit the earth.

Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.

I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.

Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests."

I don't want to work with someone who's nervous, I want to work with someone who is fearless

Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.

There's not a country on earth that doesn't feel that it might be invaded by Donald Trump's regime.

I have no plan to retire anytime soon, although remember I am 50 years old! I do plan on the near future writing a book, that is definitely in the plans for my career.

A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.