Busy idleness urges us on. [Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]

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.

I just feel really grateful that I can pursue my dreams and also reach people in ways that I never expected.

A true Christian, living an obedient life, is a constant rebuke to those who accept the moral standards of this world.

If you run a thousand miles a minute, you can expect to wear out a few pairs of shoes.

Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people.

The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God.

I used to believe in a "Ms. Right", but now i know there is like 4 million "Ms. Rights" and it is just a matter of which one you meet first.

Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.

The level of concern and anxiety among scientists - and I guess I'd say the science-friendly public - about the place of science in society in government, has gone beyond concern to anxiety.

My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.

After two and a half engagements, of course I want to get married and have babies, so I am going to freeze my eggs.