Get money first; virtue comes after.

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.

The main thing is to keep THE MAIN THING the main thing

When you work under the cloud of anxiety, the best strategy is to play it safe, because if (when!) it fails, you’ll be blameless.

There is no balm in Gilead, but there is balm in God. There is no physician among the creatures, but the Creator is Jehovah-rophi.

Almost nothing is as complex as the human personality, and no simple formula will ever cover every situation or every relationship.

...one can't avoid the storms and calamities of life, but one can at least find the right partner to face them with.

People are suckers for the truth and they know it when they see it. Open your soul and they will stop and watch.

When there’s only God to blame, we forgive him. When it’s our fellow man, we destroy him.

It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.

I am a Democrat. I have been one all of my life.

Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.