Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.

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.

Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.

Ignore negative criticisms, focus on positive thoughts.

Let's run the experiment.

I don't believe in God, but I do believe in His saints.

I came to politics later in life so I bring a different life experience to it.

If you had the cure to cancer wouldn't you share it? .. You have the cure to death .. get out there and share it.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

At the still point, there the dance is.

The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.

It's our own small voice within that is our oppressor; it says we are not worthy and not powerful enough. Our limited beliefs are the real foes we need to fight and conquer.