Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

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.

Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.

It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.

Career success means making enough money to lead the kind of life you would like to lead as a practicing Buddhist.

Look. Listen. Learn. Stay open. Your destiny is awaiting you.

I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.

I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.

Ordinary society is like a paperweight on you: it won't allow you to fly.

I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.

Donald Trump has defied practically every playbook or blue book technique in dispatching an opponent.

I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.