For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

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.

As humans, it is in our nature to focus on picking ourselves up while the whole world falls apart.

There is no fear in True Love. It is protective, and never gives a reason to doubt.

Surely this is what death would be like: nothingness, oblivion, as the world continued to turn, heedless of her absence.

Forty million Frenchmen can't be wrong.

It's easy when you grow up in fear to act out of fear. I don't want to embrace that fear; I prefer to be kind.

I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don't. The misery will come. The misery will find you.

Normally I don't feel like having a belly full of pasta.

Most people make their choices predicated upon a feeling because analysis really isn't that good a tool.

I'm living my dream job! My dream job is to be in the classroom.

Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership?