Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.

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.

Learning how to endure your disappointment and frustration is part of the job o fa creative person...Frustration is not an interruption of your process

People aren't happy because they're successful. They're successful because they're happy.

Had she been a more instinctive, "natural" cook, she might have felt less compelled to parse each recipe, to tackle each one as though getting it right were a matter of life and death.

One can acquire everything in solitude but character.

In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.

My attitude as an actor, because I'm a stage actor, is whatever the director tells you to do, you try it. You don't resist what a director is giving you.

Because when I get to heaven, the first face that shall ever gladden my sight will be that of my Savior.

No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping.

Looking at himself, but wishing he was someone else. Because the posters on the wall, they don't look like him at all.

And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows.