It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot.

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.

Doost", Ahmed voiced. "Doost", he repeated softly, shutting his eyes.The word felt like a caress."what does it mean?"'It means "The Friend", "The One I Love", "the One I Long For".

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

Society can only pursue its normal course by means of a certain progression of changes.

When you force sleep, it doesn't happen.

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.

Nobody's going to get a hot dog at my concert!

All the rest of the world uses the word electricity. They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!

Duty is what no-one else will do at the moment.

Thus I urge you to go onto your greatness if you believe it is in you. Think deeply and separate what you wish from what you are prepared to do.

A thief is like a person who has been dead from the start.