He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

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 entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.

I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

Marisa starts to snoop. I might as well too. It's not often that I get to visit a water pellet company in a freaky refugee nation. -from Fireseed One

I will fight death for my right to live until my last breath.

The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.

The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.

No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels.

The best leaders operate in four dimensions: vision, reality, ethics, and courage.

I suppose, I said, it is one definition of love, the belief in something that only the two of you can see.

I've pretty much run the circle of labels and dealing with that whole kind of battle, because you're the one creating the music, but you're not the final say. That's always been hard.