Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

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.

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.

The man who goes afoot, prepared to camp anywhere and in any weather, is the most independent fellow on earth.

If you want to talk about it with someone, then I'm happy to listen, or try and help, but you should only tell me if you want to.

Eternal joy arises by living in the 'permanent room'. Living in the 'temporary room' gives temporary joy.

Not now.It's too late.It was always too late.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose.

In geology the effects to be explained have almost all occurred already, whereas in these other sciences effects actually taking place have to be explained.

I suppose there are a lot of people who'd kill to have my career, but I still feel like a fan.

I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.

But if we have the energy of compassion and loving kindness in us, the people around us will be influenced by our way of being and living.

If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.