Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true

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.

Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.

John Lewis being attacked as "talk, talk, talk" by president-elect [Donald] Trump because he said he didn't consider him a legitimate president.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

You can't really dust for vomit.

But why must choices always lie along a linear spectrum with two poles instead of say among a sphere of possibilities

It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.

The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.

Not until it starts to stink does the inevitable happen.

Pointing fingers, trying to catch each other in scandal does not bring honor to this House.

I don't care about going down in history as a great bull rider or bronc rider. I hope people will remember me as a great cowboy.