No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

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.

I had a moment of clarity, saw the feeling in the heart of things, walked out to the garden crying.

Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.

I had a lovely pregnancy. It was a beautiful, magical time for us.

Dietrich would never do that

This is the way to hear music, I think, surrounded by rolling hills and farmlands, under a big sky.

Throw a theory into the fire; it only spoils life.

Fear goes hand-in-hand with artistic creation, and no amount of success will make the fear go away entirely.

If we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise.