That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

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.

If something traumatizes you, please do not think that your life is coming to an end. You will still have opportunities to resume with your life by speaking up and seeking for assistance.

If you don't make history, you just become history!

I may like easy choices, but I appreciate the difficult ones more.

I don't watch the show - only bits and pieces of all of them. The only one I sat through was the pilot.

You feel very much like a puppet, but it had been what I was accustomed to - so you just get on with it and try to find something that rings true.

Viserys sold my mother's crown, and men called him a beggar. I shall keep this one, so men will call me a queen. (Daenerys)

The healthy eye ought to see all visible things and not to say, I wish for green things; for this is the condition of a diseased eye.

You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

People should decide what success means for them, and not be distracted by accepting others' definitions of success.

She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference.