Our years Glide silently away. No tears, No loving orisons repair The wrinkled cheek, the whitening hair That drop forgotten to the tomb.

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.

The only thing I knew was that I would give myself permission to imagine anything, and reverse engineer my way from there.

Discouraged not by difficulties without or the anguish of ages within the heart listens to a secret voice that whispers: "Be not dismayed in the future lies the Promised Land."

Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now

When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em.

The resurrection blasts apart the finality of death, providing an alternative to the stifling, settling dust of death and opens the way to new life.

Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.

We have far more ability than we give ourselves credit for.

Maybe I needed to make like a potato, winnow myself down, be part of something that was not easy, just simple.

Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.

I just try to be the best I can be and hope that is the best ever.