You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

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.

Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous mind.

Kindness is the language of eternal consciousness.

Once God leads you to make a decision, don’t draw back. Instead, trust His leading, and believe He goes before you—because He does.

Guessing has never been widely acclaimed as a good gambling strategy.

But God fears women even more that He fears the devil- and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man.

Everyone expects me to be 9 feet tall and weigh 200 pounds [when they meet me].

I'm a miracle man, things happen which I don't plan, I've never planned anything. Whatsoever I do, I want it to be an instant action object, instant reaction subject. Instant input, instant output.

God is love and if you are ready, he always is.

I don't think we're ever going to be in a position where we can say this is the template, this is the checklist, that must be met [for intervention].

Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character.