He that finds out he's changed his lot for worse, Let him betimes the untoward choice reverse: For still, when all is said, the rule stands fast, That each man's shoe be made on his own last.

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.

The fulcrum of resistance is in your mind where you pit yourself against the weight of the external.

Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry.

Until you realize who you are, you will not be able to start living the life you are intended to live

Leaf felt buried beneath the remains of their prior life, the ashes coating every part of who he thought he was in this community.

I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.

Little changes are the enemies of great changes.

Maybe down the road, I can see myself being part of the creative process, but acting is definitely my first and true love.

Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix.