It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.

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.

I'm not a star!!! A star is nothing but a ball of gas!!!

You must learn, day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon.

There's always music sitting around, but when you're cultivating music, the idea of getting into a studio and compressing it to get something out on time can be really good.

The ones that you're calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.

The time of Jesus and grace has come.

We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.

The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of acting deals with the perfecting of that medium.

The more princes abstain from touching the wealth of their people, the greater will be their resources in the wants of the state.

This is my child. I planted it. I saw it grow. I loved it. Don't cut it down.

Ash Wednesday is full of joy...The source of all sorrow is the illusion that of ourselves we are anything but dust.