Half is done when the beginning is done.

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.

The man with the most guns survives the zombie apocalypse, but the man with the most books, locks the door and forgets it ever happened.

What we call the beginning is often an end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

If you have time to get your pet rabbit its own Instagram account, you have time to at least tweet about something important.

What matters is how many times you get up.

Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints.

It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to watch all the shows on TV. I watch them all.

We need to take a whole UK perspective on this [Brexit]. The Mayor of London has got a role in those kinds of discussions.

We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on cigar-box lids.

O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note, to drown me in thy sister’s flood of tears.