Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

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.

There is no such thing as failure

Without darkness, how could we have appreciated the light?

Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

What has changed for me is that I now have a huge family [Lightfoot has four children, from his first two marriages] - the result of my living.

You might be a redneck if you own all the components of soap on a rope except the soap.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone - but that is all it means.

It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.

I'd love to try and get a summer and winter gold medal-that would be amazing.