Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip. [Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]

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.

Loving someone as fiercely as my mom loves me must be like wearing your heart outside of your body with no skin, no bones, no nothing to protect it.

Sometimes I look at my own movies

Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! Oh look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!

Every hour spent on the Caine was a great hour in all our lives-if you don't think so now you will later on, more and more.

Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.

If love wasn't the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death.

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

I never looked around me because it might freak me out, because if you're up on a mountain you don't wanna like, look down.

My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures.

A firm that continues to employ a previously successful strategy eventually and inevitably falls victim to a competitor.