He despises what he sought; and he seeks that which he lately threw away. [Lat., Quod petit spernit, repetit quod nuper omisit.]

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.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

A gym for the soul is a place where personal investment is required and the return is real.

Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.

When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.

Theories have nothing to do with life.

A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living.

We are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them.

'Drugs' and psychedelics are not two members of a family, they are antithetically opposed to each other. The pro-psychedelic position is an anti-drug position.

We're a very religious country; the government's secular.

I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.