When discord dreadful bursts the brazen bars, And shatters iron locks to thunder forth her wars.

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.

He's quite extraordinary with his moves and spins. I think he was a baton girl in a past life [on his co-star Hayden Christensen].

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet, because language itself is poetry. – Owen Barfield

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do

The longer they keep you waiting, the more they want to deal.

Help is a conversation. If one side talks too much, the other side will get bored. So make sure you help back when you can.

Republic. I like the sound of the word.

Acting for me is finding those things that, finding the strings of humanity that tie us all together. And you only find that by living life and loving and breaking up.

I think passive beauties have their place in the world. It's hard for me to relate to that.

Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all.