You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

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.

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way.

That's the amazing thing about music: there's a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck.

When my family all got together, I'd always get up and entertain everyone, but it was all a bit of a joke. My first real memory of singing for people was when I was about eleven or 12.

Sweet sixteen today. She's looking like her momma a little more every day.

Yeah. Science doesn't end. That's the one thing I learned. People think of science as spitting out right answers, and that's it. It's always under review.

In heaven we will sing free of all the shame, sickness and sorrow that we encounter in the here and now.

We have something more reliable than a poll that changes everyday.

I don't think LeBron will win 5 rings, it's gonna be hard for him to catch up to Kobe.

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.