Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]

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.

There is a great fulfillment when you commit your life to lifelong learning.

How are you managing? And don't say you're fine."It's true. Whatever the opposite of fine is, that's what I am.

Speaking words of endearment where words of comfort availed not.

Fasting for your marriage can change your marriage

I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture.

Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.

Give your hands to Him for His work, your feet to walk His path, and your ears to hear Him speak.

What do you get the man who has everything? Might I suggest a gravestone inscribed with the words: so what?

We had a lot of luck this year and our guys took advantage. Wow. What a night.

I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that's the one I'd be interested in redoing.