The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.

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.

To be at rest is to be at peace.

Take control of your emotions before your emotions take control of you.

you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.

I'll take account of things at the end of the season. Now I'm expecting a good finish to the league season.

Every moment of your lives you are exerting a tremendous influence, that will tell on the immortal interests of souls around you. Are you asleep, while your conduct is exerting such an influence?

Be the change you want to see in your networks

I think one of the mistakes typically with authors is they have written more books than they've read.

Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.

With faith come trials of faith, bringing increased faith.

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible.