Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.

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.

Experts say that denying bad feelings intensifies them, acknowledging bad feelings allows good feelings to return.

The most romantic thing I ever did to my woman? I painted her toenails!

I think most writers have to have a practice of writing. For me it is very early in the morning. I try to make it a separate world from the rest of my life.

There is an illusion that has much to do with... most of our unhappiness.... We expect too much.

It's not completely inconceivable that someday you'll be able to download your own memories.

The facts of this world seen clearly are seen through tears.

Simon drives me crazy. We are still arguing.

The only certainty is uncertainty

Day and night my thoughts incline To the blandishments of wine, Jars were made to drain, I think; Wine, I know, was made to drink.

Stuff has become the enemy. There always seems to be more of it than I have storage in my house!