The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

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.

Changes are inevitable and not always controllable. What can be controlled is how you manage, react to and work through the change process.

May the Lord revive the crushed spirit.

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Consciousness... I think we should think of it as something we do.

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities . . .

Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.

Breakthroughs, in art, in culture, in personality, come when tackling the unexpected.

While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.

Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece.

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.