Curst is the wretch enslaved to such a vice, Who ventures life and soul upon the dice.

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.

Where your attention lies is where your life thrives. Shift your focus if you're unsatisfied.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.

If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.

Harry looked at Bellman. He could not help but admire him. The way you admire a cockroach you flush down the toilet and it comes creeping back again and again and in the end it inherits the world.

It's tougher for me. But I don't think that's imperative to me starting a new movement, or revive an old movement, to help people.

I didn't have a vision as in, This is where I'm going. I had a vision as in, "This is what I love to do."

Twelve people die every day because there aren't enough kidneys.

When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel in distress, they're manipulating some guy to help them.

Opportunity does not knock. You have to find it