For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.

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.

I am who I am and that's who I am

Give thanks to the earth for the hospitality and generosityShow gratitude for life, light and every little beauty.

in life it is better to be a supporting pillar than a destroying caterpillar

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.

I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.

Your life is the same wherever you go.

When we are in a situation where Jesus is all we have, we soon discover He is all we really need.

I didn't realize it was October until I saw the Chicago Cubs choking.

Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.