It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.

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.

We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.

Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am-Luna Lovegood

At Christmastime, whenever I feel overwhelmed and a little out of sorts, all I have to do is think of my father and the things he'd be doing if he were here – and I smile.

The secrets in his brain were like some mesmerizing drug to me.

America is a country where the Olympics and the divorce lawyers both have the same slogan - Go for the Gold.

Sometimes, you know, I cry. And sometimes I scream. And I get really angry. And I get really upset, you know, into wallowing in self-pity sometimes. And I think that it's all part of the healing.

I'm a firm believer in the idea that theater excels over film and TV in its ability to let people play with poetry.

Hunger is actually the worst weapon of mass destruction. It claims millions of victims each year.

I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much.

Make yourself smell nice. I even wear perfume sometimes when I'm alone.