Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.

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.

To hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.

I write to forget the days that broke me into a million nights.

Some of us feel the need to experience life before bending to the will of an arcane society.

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent.

It's fun to be the guy everybody looks to.

It's not about eating healthy to lose weight. It's about eating healthy to feel good.

Buy a $100 US bond and frame it to teach your children about inflation by watching the US bond value diminish to almost nothing over the next 20 years.

The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.

Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.