What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?

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.

Start doing what you want to do. You will only get better with time. Or you’ll realize you want to be doing something else. Either way, one of those things is better than sitting & waiting!

In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take.

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.

Poetry isn't just different from prose, it's more important for the human species.

The adrenaline gets pumping and you just got to forget about [injuries] and play.

Real benefits come when managers begin to understand the profound difference between 'cost cutting' and 'eliminating the causes of costs'

Hillary Clinton said that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is engaged in 'theater.' Which explains the new strategy to defeat him: casting him as the lead in 'Spider-Man: the Musical.'

Democrats proposing failure in Iraq by withdrawing.

The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.

The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.