Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.

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.

We burn out not because we don't care but because we don't grieve. We burn out because we have allowed our hearts to become so filled with loss that we have no room left to care.

A true piece of writing sets you free.

Everyday as we die, we must be reborn. If there were no death, life would be meaningless.

As a child, I had a teacher who told me, 'Look, Anne, one person can't make a difference.'

My painting occurs when I think of two disparate elements.

Why can't the Jews and the Arabs just sit down together and settle this like good Christians?

You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes; it would be unreasonable to do so without accident for two hundred years.

I have never met a dog I couldn't help; however, I have met humans who weren't willing to change.

You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die.

No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.