Brighter than Parian marble.

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.

Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" is the only personal development book that does not mention it.

The one kiss that was stolen, was given in a lie.

Dear God, teach me to be careless.

The Iraq fight itself is probably going to go very, very fast. The shooting should be over within just a very few days from when it starts.

Much must he toil who serves the Immortal Gods.

Those who refuse to look at or give expression to the dark side of life are in denial-fear preventing passage through the door of growth, truth and, ultimately, wisdom.

Capture a shadow, dance with the wind, stand in a rainbow, begin at the end.

I have a bit of a frustrated dancer in me.

I am against the fact that a settler minority should impose an entire system of values on an indigenous people.

As an impoverished student I used to spend days out in Selfridges, nibbling on samples of free cheese and dousing myself with scent in the perfume department.