The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.

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.

Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time.

My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.

So when do I meet the champ?

Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age.

We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition. How, otherwise, to account for much of one's life?

Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.

It's very important to keep the emotions grounded, to keep the characters in some real place.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.