Plant no other tree before the vine.

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.

Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.

If one is not prepared to fail, there is no way to achieve success inbusiness and life.

Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.

Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.

I am really an introvert, and I need that time alone for a variety of reasons.

One cannot actualize his goals until he visualizes them clearly in the minds eye

Poverty is the mother of all revolutions

Words are merely utterances: noises that stand for feelings, thoughts, and experience. They are symbols. Signs. Insignias. They are not Truth. They are not the real thing.

It's been strange and weird watching the other girls at the U.S. Olympic trials just because I was training to be out there myself.

You can't hate/love others without loving/hating yourself first.