Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?

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.

On a ship that's made of paper, I would sail the seven seas. (Just to be with you.)

I sort of feel like people are not that honest about their own parenting. Take any teenage household tell me there is not yelling and conflict.

Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers.

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

I get a lot of sleep on the bus. I bring two dogs with me, who keep me grounded. I guess that's just in my soul. It's good to know that you're good at something.

My favorite jewelry, it's just what I'm feeling at the time.

The majority of a society is the true definition of the public.

These are optimistic pieces, travel pieces that go anywhere