In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.

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 stiller you are the calmer life is.

It is pain that ages us, not years.

Regret is a toxin that I try not to allow in my body.

And, of course, the funniest food of all, kumquats.

The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor.

..And the same rapper who revels in a woman's finely proportioned behind may also speak against racism and on behalf of the poor, even as he encourages them not to look at hip-hop as their salvation.

You become like what you worship

Apologies are not pass/fail.

My job is to protect the integrity of the NFL and to make sure the game is as safe as possible.

What gnats are compared with humans, so is the whole creation compared with God.