Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.

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.

And seemingly as winter has become spring, confusion has become insight.

Actually I don't know if honesty is a strength or some kind of weakness.

It's what I call the haute couture, high-end version of fear perfectionism. It's just fear in really good shoes. But it's still fear.

I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only a manufactured effect.

Excite the mind, and the hand will reach for the pocket.

Death comes for us all in the end.

A character is 2D, and then after I come in it becomes a 3D; it becomes alive.

The most ordinary words have amazing life in them.

I'm fitter than I've ever been, I'm actually very, very healthy and I'm happy.

As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance