Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.

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.

A man who has built a world empire with only ideas and with love, not with swords and with archers, is the greatest amongst all the men!

We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets.

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

The key to turning dreams into reality is action.

21 Jump Street is great. I just made that, and produced it and was a writer on it. It's starring myself and Channing Tatum, and maybe some surprise guests.

I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am invincible.

If rising makes you famous, don't give up rising, but find a safe port where you can be unreachable!

The role of the designer is basically that of a good host, anticipating the needs of the guest.

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood.