We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously.

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.

Love will never let you down, if you don't give it up

What kind of god would create a world in which the means of survival depends on our eating each other?

The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him.

Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.

How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life, God knows.

When you come from an under-privileged background, oftentimes, you feel a little overwhelmed by your education or your lack of.

Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can't wait to beat another human's guts out?

It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is: kill her.

One of the things I love about New York is that it's one of the only places where you could have an entire restaurant dedicated to macaroni and cheese.

I regret nothing, but I am sorry that I am about to leave my friends.