It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

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.

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

If your life was complete, you'd be dead.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.

Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs.

Our poets have sung of wine, the product of a foreign plant which commonly they never saw, as if our own plants had no juice in them more than the singers.

In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti.

I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema, writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.