And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.

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.

Why am I not good at anything?""You're a good dad.""It ain't rocket science."No, Vic thought. It was harder.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

I think the American people recognize that the world has shrunk. That it's interconnected. That you're not going to put that genie back in the bottle.

Now I know a refuge never grows from a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose gotta tend the earth if you want a rose.

The sun will shine in my back door one day.

So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?

He is twice a conqueror, who can restrain himself in the hour of triumph.

When a boy writes off the world it's done with sloppy misspelled words If a girl writes off the world it's done in cursive.

If I have a dry spell ... I wait and live harder, eyes, ears, and heart open, and when the productive time comes, it is that much richer.

It is when we are in transition that we are most completely alive.