It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.

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.

there is something intriguing about knowing how things are going to turn out, but being constantly surprised about how they'll get there.

Beating drums while doing a kindness to someone is a very ugly show of ego!

Evil's when you push your agenda over someone else's. When you assert your beliefs over somebody's contrary beliefs. That's evil.

- If no one understands anything in the same way, what use is communication? - The best way to recycle empty soup cans is to tie a string to them and talk to yourself - from up to a mile away.

I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

As Hoffman later lamented, “The reality distortion field can serve as a spur, but then reality itself hits.

Books are like tweets, except longer.

If you tell me, I will listen. If you show me, I will see. If you let me experience, I will learn!

But it was equally clear to her that this was her fate, that she had called its name and it had come to her, and she could do nothing now but own it.