He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

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.

Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.

If one day she'll forgot the things about me, then I wish we haven't had this chance to know each other.

Furloughing a bunch of air traffic controllers has a pretty easy-to-predict effect on air travel: It causes delays.

Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.

I'm a great believer that if you don't get the ball to the hole, it won't go in.

Brad Pitt is so good-looking there's a lightbulb inside of him shooting good-looking-ness in all directions.

Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind!

Misinterpretation leads me to inspiration and creativity because I think my brain is trying to figure out some information that I'm confused about.

You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.