O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

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.

People are prettiest when they smile with joy.

What does the divine sufferer (Jesus) demand from us? Only our faith, our love, our grateful praise, our consecrated hearts and lives. Is that too much to ask?

Steve Jobs has said that Xwindows is brain-damamged and will disappear in two years. He got it half-right.

Do we need a top-flight quarterback? Do human beings need air to breath?

If you want to change something, you have to use new ways.

I was reading for understanding. I wanted to do to a reader what Salinger did for me.

A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not.

There is no useful information contained in historical price movements of securities.

I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.

For an economy to prosper, trust between the states must be established, and their individual strengths be appreciated.