Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?

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.

Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.

Loss taught me. It taught me that I won’t have people around me forever. The good I need to do to someone today, I may not have the opportunity to do tomorrow.

You don't have to be like most people around you, because most people never become truly rich and wealthy.

The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.

I grew up cursing a lot.

There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.

Environmental problems are really social problems anyway. They begin with people as the cause and end with people as the victims

Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing.

Even though it hurt, there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud.

I went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church.