To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

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.

When pain is intense, you are at a climax. You can then see the light of transcendence.

All of creation expands and evolves.

Exile is not a time frame. Exile is an experience. It's a sentiment.

Like all writers, my greatest inspiration, my ultimate muse, is a deadline.

I think every job that I've done to this point has had something new to challenge me.

I don’t pay attention to the world. I just have the art I like and the music I like and for me that’s the whole world

People who were so good. There were angels.

Freedom, like everything else, is relative.

I'm happy. I don't ever have to pay anything, and I don't ever have to wash the dishes, and I don't ever have to behave nicely.

I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is really no place I would rather be.