I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.

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.

When one door opens, so does another one.

Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

You're trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person? And then I make sure I ask it early in the interview.

One of the interesting and exciting things about my job is watching technological ground being pioneered.

The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience .

I would think it a greater happiness to gain one soul to Christ than mountains of silver and gold to myself.

Success is the process of having a wonderful experience going for, getting, and having what you want.

The habit of disguising ideology as expertise has created a deficit of legitimacy.

It was part of your religion to hate the British.