I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.

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.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living.

I wear my past around my shoulders as a fine, but worn, cloak. Don't be fooled by my cloak's appearance, I have a three piece underneath.

I don't answer. I shut my eyes and hold my breath and hope whoever it is will think I'm not here and go home.

The climate of today is not really focused as much as it was then on being able to speak about different cultural issues or different situations that were going on politically.

If you aren't following your bliss, there is a discrepancy in your psychology that needs to be healed, it needs to be mended.

Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone.

If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!

I give extraordinary attention to military active duty, reserve and National Guard, and their families.

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

You reach your audience at the moment when you really have something to say - that is, when you're not just delivering a performance.