The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.

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.

He gently kissed that scar and felt something changing inside him - just a flutter of change, there and gone, but leaving its mark.

As Christ bore and received us as sinners so we in his fellowship may bear and receive sinners into the fellowship of Christ through the forgiving of sins.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it. That's OK.

I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didn’t know what that was. I knew only what it wasn’t. The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan

People aren't for hitting.

Whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.

We are full of bread and gas, getting fat on the outside while inside we grow thin

Many kids turn to selling drugs. It's not a good career choice, but they see it as a way to get money.

At one point in my practice, of the 10 largest home builders in the United States, seven of the 10 were my clients.