Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.

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.

In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.

People think it's a betrayal of authenticity if you do something different.

Kids today learn a lot about getting to the moon, but very little about getting to heaven.

I can't think of a time when we've had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian.

Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.

Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.

My favorite part of Comic-Con? The groupies. Man, they have loose morals, really. Men, women, I'm just saying that it gets weird on Sunday night. No, that's sadly never happened.

Forgiveness doesn't diminish justice; it just entrusts it to God. He guarantees the right retribution.

You're much better off as a love goddess to die around the age of 40.

I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.