The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

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.

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.

The man who goes afoot, prepared to camp anywhere and in any weather, is the most independent fellow on earth.

Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!

Creativity in and of itself is a type of energy vibration.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

As my father always says, there’s no shame in being poor, but it can be damned inconvenient.

Climate change is the central environmental ill of our time. We have an obligation to protect our children from the dangers of this widening scourge, and we aren't yet doing enough about it.

We now have many of the answers that once eluded Darwin, thanks to two developments that he could not have imagined: continental drift and molecular taxonomy.

I eat mostly vegan, try to get enough sleep. For me, that's really critical.

Ageing is a privilege not a predicament.

I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.

My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business.