A poem is like a painting.

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.

The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.

Moral maturity and freedom require more than mere adherence to the law

I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.

Are you helping people? Are they happy? Are you happy? Are you profitable? Isn't that enough?

Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.

I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself.

Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.

The camera is a fluid way of encountering that other reality

I love the show tunes; I love all of them.

Love is freedom. The freedom to express the most joyous part of Who You Are. The part that knows that you are One with everything and everyone.