"Now is the time to drink!"

"Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start"

"He who feared that he would not succeed sat still."

"Whatever advice you give, be brief."

"He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses."

"Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter."

"He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little."

"Dimidium facti qui coepit habet: sapere aude" ("He who has begun is half done: dare to know!")."

"Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled."

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant."

"A picture is a poem without words."

"Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone"

"Anger is a brief madness."

"In love there are two evils: war and peace."

"He who is greedy is always in want"

"Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith"

"Rule your mind or it will rule you."

"Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. (They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)"

"Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise."

"Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)"

"It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy."

"You don't walk away if you love someone. You help the person."

"What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities."

"I feel very blessed to have a partner in life who supports me, who is enthusiastic about what I want to do, who has been a great father, and who will be a fabulous grandfather."