Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.

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.

Nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to follow the path that leads to himself.

The conservative movement was told to curl up in a fetal position and just stay there for the next eight years, thank you very much. Well, how things have changed.

It won't be a normal life-I know that. But it will be a life. A life together.

We can only penetrate the rind of the earth.

I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty.

I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge.

I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.