The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.

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.

Only a foolish child would go swimming in the river that swallowed his father.

Only when man cornered, potential forced to appear.

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

You can't tell the story of the women's movement through the story of one woman.

Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.

I get a lot of pleasure and satisfaction out of giving pleasure to people through my singing; that's fantastic, but it's only entertainment.

Love does not solely belong to one person. No matter how hard you try, if the feeling is not mutual, it'll be fruitless.

My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since.

I am all in favor of the skeptical mind. Do not believe anything unless you have experienced it. Do not believe anything - go on questioning, however long it takes.

Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function?