He is not poor who has a competency.

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.

Big business is basic to the very life of this country and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is monumental contradiction.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

I heard the sighing of the reedsAt noontide and at evening,And some old dream I had forgottenI seemed to be remembering.

More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2002.

I think a lot of people compare their insides to other people’s outsides.

It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.

Physical maturity is bound to time. Spiritual maturity is bound to obedience.

For those who never pray, maybe now you will. For those of us who attempt to pray, maybe we can pray more.

Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.

Marrying a divorced man is ecologically responsible; in a world where there are more women than men, it pays to recycle.