Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace.

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.

To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection, it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

No one has all the answers, so whatever a woman who has the BRCA mutation chooses to do requires courage and an element of faith. And a lot of love and support.

Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?

Don't overwork your squad. If you're going to make a mistake, under-work them.

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.

There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here.

Today's game is always different from yesterday's game.

It has to be understood that the world doesn't exist with people who are exactly like us.