The short span of life forbids us to take on far-reaching hopes.

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.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.

There are so many opportunities that I could've gotten before if I had just took a little more of a risk.

All the movies where I play nice guys don't seem to do very well.

[On being told Mary, Queen of Scots, was taller than she:] Then she is too high, for I myself am neither too high nor too low.

I'm young. You can't just sit there and be satisfied.

I'm here, and I know that it's finite; I know that I'm not going to always be here.

The things that go wrong for you have a lot of potential to become part of your gift to the world.

A credible witness to truth and to the values of the Gospel is urgently needed.