We are free to yield to truth.

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.

Just like it is in the life of an individual or an organization, one of the catalysts of progress is discipline and order.

The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.

Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies.

Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business, they have no time to tend their health either of body or mind.

People want fame and I would never tell a person to not want that, because it's f--ing awesome. Actually.

Actually, who are you not to be?

The best way to make Communists is to put the Americans into a place where there were no Communists before.

They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn't laugh or be sad with him.

Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important.

I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.