Day is pushed out by day, and each new moon hastens to its death. [Lat., Truditur dies die, Novaeque pergunt interire lunae.]

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.

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

In the nembutsu we see and feel the Buddha everywhere and in everything. Life itself becomes the unfolding of Buddha

Dreams do come true. If anyone's proof of that, it's me.

The technology's going to change, but what people want to read is going to be basically the same.

I adore Susan Sarandon, she's just so cool, and brilliant, and beautiful. I just like her whole vibe - off- and on-screen.

I don't want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films - and I hope there isn't - it's to be open-minded.

We have garlic days, and onion days. You know what they're cooking.

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord.

Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.