Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]

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.

The bittersweet about truth is that nothing could be more hurtful, yet nothing could be more helpful.

Get around people who are trying to make a difference in the world. Iron sharpens iron.

When you live with dignity no man will ever take it. Live without it and every boy will steal it.

Freedom had no place in the Soviet System. Freedom was another word for anarchy, and that wouldn't do at all.

To say that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic merit, is no better than to say he is rheumatic or diabetic.

I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can't stop it.

There are ugly aspects to every single person's character. In being truthful, actors do have to show the ugly side of someone's character. We all behave like dicks sometimes.

A country is as strong, really, as its citizens. And I think that mental and physical health - mental and physical vigor - go hand in hand.

Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.

You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires.