Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.

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.

Every time I tried kissing happiness, it came very close to me and then pushed me away.

To fit into the need of God is to manifest his love-nature

I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.

There's nothing magic about regulations, too much is bad, too little is bad.

Moral stimulation is good but moral complacency is the most dangerous habit of mind we can develop, and that danger is serious and ever-present.

The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.

The worst moment from all of this was driving from that doctor's office, to tell my wife that I was HIV positive.

The scene where I took my eyelashes off we did in two takes.

It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

You don't have to be famous to be great.