Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

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.

If you knew what I would become in the future, would you have treated me the same way today?.

People say love isn’t supposed to be painful. But maybe the best things in life are the ones that hurt the most after they’re gone.

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

Remember, as each man and woman is a microcosm reflecting the larger natural world, so healing of the self is also a healing for the world. As above, so below.

Give him threepence, since he must make a gain out of what he learns.

Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions.

Wow, the entire network of anchors has been hired to be the press secretary.

There's no question that many factors contribute to voters' perceptions about debates and who wins and who loses.

I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one.

Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.