Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

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.

Everything is in the way the material is composed.

Art upsets science reassures.

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

We get to be God's plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.

Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character.

If you don't cast well, you can be in real trouble.

When words & manners leave you no space for yourself make very personal very clear & your obstructions will join you or disappear.

Unrequited love is like hitting your head against a wall that isn't there.

There are the altars, but here is the greatest of altars, the living, conscious human body, and to worship at this altar is far higher than the worship of any dead symbols.

The very best players, when they are practicing, put everything they've got into it. But then they leave it for a while. And it's the same in dharma practice.