With equal pace, impartial Fate Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate.

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.

Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.

The second I tell myself I have to do something, I'm sure to do the opposite.

You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.

You know what, evolution is a myth. ... Why aren't monkeys still evolving into humans?

It's so important to take vitamins. People always get ill on tour because of the close proximity in the bus with everyone.

Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.

The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present

We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants.

I don't really read that much stuff about myself anyways, because I feel as though you then develop this mind-set of just making sure other people would approve of your decisions.

Only failure makes us experts.