You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.

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.

A real girl isn't perfect and a perfect girl isn't real.

The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.

If you're too in your head and you're not in the moment, life passes you by.

Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.

Don't go fighting against the Spring.

Taxes are the killing fields of Democrats.

Watch your thoughts. Every thought accepted as true is sent by your brain to your solar plexus - your abdominal brain - and is brought into your world as a reality.

The ultimate 20-year plan is to be living in the Caribbean, writing, living off the land, eating from the ocean and probably smoking herb.

Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.

It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.