Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.

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.

I suggest that if you were able to focus your attention at will, you could actually choose the universe you appear to inhabit.

To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.

When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?' No one ever guesses tae kwon do.

Make your mistakes work for you by learning from them.

The population of America is roughly 300 million and there are 300 million guns in this country, which is terrifying.

The true path to peace is shared development. If we do not want war to go global, justice must go global

Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.

I think all the beer I drank in college created an iron bladder.

My parents raised me to never feel like I was entitled to success.That you have to work for it. You have to work so hard for it. And sometimes then you don't even get where you need to go.