As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more.

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.

Creativity is fluid, like the fountainhead from within you, flowing out.

I chose to tell the story visually, so that anyone of any age, from any country, could understand it.

Yet even the brightest of sunrises must come to an end.

There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a sense in which fiction can rescue history from confusion.

You want your fans to like what you do, because it's coming from your heart and soul. You write it, you produce this thing. It's like your baby.

Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you.

How much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world.

Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years.

The telling of your stories is a revolutionary act.

We build our character from the bricks of habit we pile up day by day.