Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune. [Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.]

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.

In the high tide or low tide, I'm gonna be your friend... I'm gonna be your friend!

As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.

The broken can always be fixed

If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.

The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.

We are suffering from a kind of slow-motion barbarization from within.

Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.

What is the Balmain girl? It’s a woman who knows what she wants and is going to express it

I'm too impatient to use a tripod.

When a man knows how to live amid danger, he is not afraid to die. When he is not afraid to die, he is, strangely, free to live.