Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

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.

Not watching the path where his legs took him, he walked on because he knew he had to walk ahead, leaving his past behind.

What the heart loves, the will chooses and the mind justifies.

All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.

My father and I are very similar and have a wonderful relationship, but we both stand by our opinions.

Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.

Obviously, following my convictions has come at a personal price, but they are important enough that I have been willing to endure the abuse.

Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?

Being a part of a political party is something like being a partner in a marriage - work at it and stay loyal to it, and when you can't stomach it any longer, leave it.

While the WTO negotiations will continue, there are other trade negotiations of a bilateral nature, which among other things, should help to open up these markets for South African products.

In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.