He who begun has half done. Dare to be wise begin.

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 willingness to challenge hardships taps the power within human beings to transform even a place of tragedy into a stage for fulfilling one's mission.

As Jess watched in numb horror, the man tore a page from the book and stuffed it into his mouth.

I will fight untill the end

Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.

Oh, how short are the days! How soon the night overtakes us!

August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.

It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

The red sands of Marrakesh, sprawling at the foot of the Atlas like a wounded Leviathan.

I've been solo since 1996, so I've been doing it for a while now.

Many of the ideas of Sun Tzu and Mao Zedong came naturally to the young Ho Chi Minh, who would probably have applied the same strategy even had he not been aware of them.