Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.

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.

You see, insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We're going crazy.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

Laughing at fear is one of the best things you can do. When you are afraid, instead of just plunging into panic, laugh. The fear gets really uptight and leaves.

One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.

I'm a very old man. I've had lots of problems. Most of them never happened..!

What problems?" "Well for starters.. you're an evil duck killer.

In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.

Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is.

Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene.