It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity

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 only way to reduce ugliness in the world is to reduce it in yourself,

We each have our own beliefs. What is important is not to piush your beliefs onto others.

Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism.

When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.

The people who do the scoring and the music for movies are very talented, really special people.

I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.

Clericalism: the habitual confusion between that which is of Caesar, and that of God.

Men can't be trusted with pruning shears any more than they can be trusted with the grocery money in a delicatessen . . . They are like boys with new pocket knives who will not stop whittling.

If you want to judge me, I can handle it.

I try to capture reality, nothing else.