No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.

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.

No one gets up after death-there is no applause-there is only silence and some second-hand clothes, and that's death.

I design flats like I design heels: They must be seductive, beautiful and comfortable.

In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

It's hard being such a powerful woman in the business. I'm known for not always being warm and fuzzy, because you'll just get bulldozed over.

I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.

Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.

What a pity people don't take as much trouble with their own breeding as intelligent racehorse owners do. But then I suppose it is bordering on fascism to think like that.

I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.