Busy idleness urges us on.

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.

A life has to move or it stagnates.

Fan Luv is a powerful positive movement. All over the world they come. It's a force of luv.

It's a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivations.

Promise is one thing. Fulfilling that promise is quite another.

Self-awareness moves us beyond the old, well-worn pathways in the brain that support fixed, unconscious habits.

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance.

I love to write quartets. One could say that this is a mania.

Laying complements next to each other makes them scintillating, but mixing them produces a 'muddy' rendering of each color. The mud is good stuff.

I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.