What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.

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 you want to find wilier race by common sense, then you have just narrowed your searching area.

As adults, we can develop and change our opinions. In childhood, we establish the truth of our hearts.

If you go to heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy it there.

In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.

Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised clients.

You've built your homeyou've fledged your birdsyou've beaten the windwith your bonesyou've finished alonewhat no one began

I get a script and it's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.

Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.

There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.

Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God He knows, thy share thereof is small.