Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

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.

Work hard, put maximum effort, and have a good attitude. Most importantly never give up.

Why the hell didn't faerie food come with a warning written in bold letters: MADE IN LA LA LAND. EATING WILL OPEN YOU UP TO FAERIE ATTACKS.

It's just better to promote love and fairness and equality than it is to promote something you think is based on your religious beliefs.

I get cold - really cold - when I travel.

I've never once in my life known a person who was successful who didn't have a big ego. Ego's not a bad thing.

I've lived a slower and less expensive life going off the grid, and I'm happier because of it.

Learning means making errors. Those who are learning spiritually make errors just the way anyone does when he is growing.

The most original novelist now writing in English.

When you're putting together a story, sometimes you just have to skip over the boring bits.

Hiking a ridge, a meadow, a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get.