You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.

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.

Halloween is the only day I can dress up like a hot Latina woman with a beer belly.

Even though other people wrote my songs I put my stamp on them. I have a connection, but there is no truer connection than an artists and their own song.

I feel that women 'and men,' but I mean the 'individual,' can be totally feminine and still be totally powerful.

Nonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good.

That's a job that it makes a few friendships, but it probably breaks more.

I see my goals as personal and I always have. That's just been how I've worked.

Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.

One thing I do know, you can't change hatred by showing those people that they're wrong about us.

Throughout whatever I do, I always just say "Director" first. I am directing the storylines and I'm creating what it is.

If you want to reach out for something new, you must first let go of what’s in your hand.