Nothing is achieved without toil.

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.

I am not a wishing well with legs. (Paraphrasing Babylon 5's Londo Mollari, repeately, when asked to perform hacking functions for strangers.)

There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.

The hand that gives, gathers.

Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]

It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.

Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path , to vanish into the vast sea of God.

Question reality, especially if it contradicts the evidence of your hopes and dreams.

I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.