Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use.

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.

R.I.P.Tom Conlon O'Rourke.Not Dead, just Sleeping.

Now I just act like I don't remember

Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar.

We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.

I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.

I don't think anyone can fall in love for ratings.

I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.

Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.

I can't go into a bar anywhere without someone starting to play 'the Entertainer'.

She was so fat that her clothes are made by Omar the tent maker.