Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

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.

It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting.

From one dog all the dogs bark.

I don't listen to the radio in the car, and I do that because I don't want to be influenced.

There is something about fashion that can make people really nervous.

Usually, you don't know where a book comes from ... it's just there, some kind of an itch that you can't quite scratch.

It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are not indispensable to domestic solacement.

Our nation is well equipped to make the transition. We have an abundance of natural resources like wind, natural gas, solar and geothermal.

Blessed is the mind that jumps over and beyond its own conditioning and lands again into its natural state of unmoving awareness.

My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else.

World peace is one project that we have to do together.