The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy.

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.

The happier person is one, that acknowledges and accepts life won't get any better than this.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

The journey toward self-discovery is life's greatest adventure.

Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.

Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.

Considering yourself selflessly selfish is a principle of all great thinkers

I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.

I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.