I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance.

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.

You have my whole heart. You always did.

The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.

I can’t apologize for who I am any more. Even better, I have no desire to.

When I was a very little boy, I lived underneath the air pattern of LaGuardia airport in New York and I watched the planes fly to their destinations. I was in love with the design of these airplanes.

Being a comedian, you're under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform - to deal with pressure without stress.

The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.

The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

Why is everyone telling me to do it? I already did it.

Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.

Those who base their lives on the belief that a loving God is acting in their behalf tend to see problems as opportunities for growth.