Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

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.

Yeah, it never fails to amaze me how a single lie can undo an entire lifetime of good. (Aiden)

Since Ireland’s independence declaration was a century older, I could not be sure if his self-evident truths meant as much as they would in America.

I just have always been so interested in the way actors and actresses present themselves to the world because I think it is very important and it affects the way people see you as an actor.

I know I look good. The regular adjectives that come my way - sexy, hot, dusky, bong bombshell I love them.

C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

And sometimes the show can't go on.

The NYPD was ubiquitous. They were always around Malcolm X. Whenever Malcolm spoke, there would be one or two dozen cops all over the place.

We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together...

People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why; they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake.