When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.

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.

A broken shoelace can strangle me.

Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.

I can't live my life worrying about something that might never happen.

I'd like to say let your kids go out and play. Then I'd say you're not going to do that are you? Make your kids go out and play.

By rubbing up against the world, I define myself to myself.

As we drive down the freeways, we see the new cars, but not the massive new-car loans that enslave their drivers to the banks.

When you respect somebody who has talent, whether it's a designer or a photographer, then you don't want to let yourself down - but you also really don't want to let them down.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.

A dimwit thinks nothing is funny unless it's mean.