Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires.

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.

Your eyes should never be lent to the devil

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

The doctor looked at my cardiogram and made that "hmmmm" noise that doctors are taught in medical school so they won't come right out and say "UH-oh!"

Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.

If the person or artist doesn't touch it, and if the camera stays relatively far away from it, it doesn't really have to be real.

It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.

A smile can work wonders. Put it to work for you.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

Happiness is a mysterious thing, to be found somewhere between too little and too much.

I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.