In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

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.

Nobody intentionally sets out to fail or dwell in mediocrity.

Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

I cannot give up chasing after happiness simply because there might be pain down the road.

I don't want to die, obviously, but really, the wonder of life is amplified by the fact that it ends.

I don't want to die before Will Smith 'cause then I miss that awesome 'Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' marathon.

The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found vain, wanting, and destructive.

If you design communities for automobiles, you get more automobiles. If you design them for people, you get walkable, livable communities.

I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

Has anyone ever won an argument with you? (Syd) Just Tee, and I was drunk and wounded at the time. (Joe)

Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.