One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.

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.

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.--"Wanda

For a novelist, no matter what, it's a complete work, even if it's not published. But if you write a screenplay, and it's not performed, then it's a sad and frustrating experience.

...we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

I like some of the young guys like Senator Thune. He's a guy that looks good. He's very articulate, he's very smart, and he truly is a public servant.

Real Democrats don't abandon the middle class.

There's no greater power than the power of good-bye.

When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.

Abortion is not the lesser of two evils. It is a crime. It is to throw someone out in order to save another.

The ultimate test of a nation's character is not how it responds to adversity in war but how it meets the challenge of peace.

I hated farm work. I always got stuck with the jobs my father and brother didn't want to do.