The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.

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.

With God, everything will work for my good.

I thought you wanted to catch a camel, " you tried again."No.""I want to.""Well, you go then."You laughed. "I want your beautiful face where I can see it

She had become so much more accustomed to hard work and opposition than to adulation that the only emotion she had felt had been one of acute discomfort.

The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap we esteem too lightly 'tis dearness only that gives everything it's value.

Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.

Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others.

My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy.

The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation.

Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replay in sports. They've already forgotten what's happened.

A fleet of the most powerful vessels would be of little use in war without a personnel at least as efficient as that of our possible enemies.