Take subject matter equal to your powers, and ponder long, what your shoulders cannot bear, and what they can.

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.

This is not an easy time in which to live. That does not mean that it has to be a difficult time to love...

People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or in some contrivance to raise prices.

I cried a river of tears but he was too heavy to float on them. So I dragged him with me these years across an ocean.

I'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose.

When you write things down, you commit to doing them. If you simply tell me what you want to do, there is really no commitment to getting it done.

You can't give up in any game, even if you are losing.

It was only when I moved to New York that I realized tall is good.

When nothing makes sense and the world seems upside down, listen to your heart, it will never lie about your true feelings.

I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.

It's easy to operate under the illusion that what we are doing is so important we cannot stop doing it. ... Stopping is a spiritual act. It is the refuge where we drink life in.