Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.

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 don't know when and I don't know how, but you'll get through this. And you'll kick life in the balls just as hard as it's kicked you.

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

He, the One, the bringer of all to enlightenment, had an earthy name. His name was Jimmy.

And what we've lost sight of is that performing manual labor with your hands is one of the most incredibly satisfying and positive things you can do.

Putting miles in your training log is like putting money in the bank. You begin to draw interest on it immediately.

I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has.

You need to be able to express your resentment and sense of loss in a way that doesn't damage your partner.

Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent.

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

I enjoy doing very high mileages, partly out of masochism and also because I like to feel the shape of the landscape.