No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.

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.

But, like all happiness, it did not last long…

I try to be cool with everybody, but sometimes, everybody just has different personalities, motives, and different characters.

The level of jealousy and insecurity in this industry [restaurant] is far greater than ever before.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

A little love and affection in everything you do will make the world a better place with or without you.

You can't find peace by hiding from life

He trailed off as he saw the books. Piles and stacks of them beside the sofa, another stack on the coffee table, a sea of them on her dining table. Jesus Christ, Dane, you need treatment.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.