Joking apart, now let us be serious.

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.

Music is the language of the heart

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade: today it is the reverse.

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.

If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.

I don't wave a flag for anything. I'm a musician.

I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody.

We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.

It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.