It is not permitted that we should know everything.

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.

People are always trying to understand.There is only one way to do that.It is to discover < + i + >why< + i + > you want to understand.

I have always been a nomad and I have mastered the art of packing! I always say: pack lightly, live lightly.

God blessed me by putting me here for thirty-one years at Michigan and Trumbull.

Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters.

I make a living from storytelling - if you're a public person and you sing songs about getting married to get a visa, and you are actually doing that, you're gonna end up in trouble.

Is an animal less or more intelligent because it lives without clothes, central heating, and well, atom bombs ?

Living in Dallas, I root for the Mavericks and the Stars and the Cowboys, but I've always pulled for the Chicago Cubs. I enjoy watching them play.

I started a PhD in English at the University of Chicago because I loved poetry-which I now realize is like saying I studied vivisection because I loved dogs.

I'm not in business to be loved, but I am in business.

When the playful me shows up, I am ready to be a serious learner … a culture of playfulness is closely related to the capacity to learn.