It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

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.

Every election is determined by the people who show up.

Sometimes I don't feel as if I'm a person at all. I'm just a collection of other people's ideas.

The frontiers are not east or west north or south but wherever a man fronts a fact.

Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.

Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared.

He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose.

Not till the end of the war will there be any time for art or love or magic again. Perhaps never again.

You'll find a way. You'll always find a way. And on the rare occasions when you can't, you'll have friends who will.

You saved me, Eve." He watched her blink in absolute shock. "What you are, what I feel for you, what we are together saved me." He kept his eyes on hers as he kissed her.

It's nobody's business how you do something.