It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?

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.

Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round".

We are in the world to complement each other.

We can sum up the surrealist distinction between 'literature' and 'poetry' by saying where the former is artificial, fictive and elusive, the latter is natural, real, direct and spontaneous.

All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.

Intuition is the GPS of Life.

I believe in the healing power of the arts, and whenever anyone can bring art into anyone's life, it's a special thing.

As you gain experience, you mature as an individual, and along with that comes the confidence that you have the ability to solve problems.

Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.

In Nashville, there is a historic tendency to work the lyric to death while settling for music that works. In pop or rock, it can be the other way around.

Put all your eggs in one basket... the handle's going to break. Then all you've got is scrambled eggs.