Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.

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.

For it is often the hardest tasks that build the most character.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.

I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything.

This opportunity comes once in a lifetime.

My only regret is that I'm going before that rat, Robespierre! [to his executioner] Don't forget to show my head to the people; it's well worth seeing.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.