Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.

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.

There wasn’t a bit of innocence or purity in him. He was sinful and cynical. Unapologetic. He cared nothing for the world. He just ate its fruits and roamed its wilds and didn’t need anyone.

I never did acid, I am just so high anyway.

If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.

I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father.

I haven't backed down from a fight in my life, and I won't start tonight.

You can make history, or you will be vilified by it.

I'm always pre-occupied with what it is that I'm doing at the moment.

Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.

New York has their own character. I love the fans here. They are very honest, and I love that.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.