A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.

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.

There ought to be a law that allows eavesdroppers to sue.

A good friend of mine once said, "I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child.

It is good to be imperfect so that we retain our joy to work hard to rise to perfection!

Only by glaring into the depths of ones own reflection can we find our true selves. It is here where the mirrored voices of our souls speak and can be heard.

The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.

I smiled back and I thought how incredible that was, that they would find the time to smile. There was goodness in the world still, even if you couldn’t always see it.

The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field.

I hate to be categorized.

If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.

It is hard to teach an old dog tricks.