Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.

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.

we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particularway in which we have been accustomed to be pleased.

If you must push yourself beyond your limits, push yourself hard enough for success.

I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports.

She didn't know that there was more of me, she'd have to learn to love all four of me.

If you are honest with yourself and if you want to like what you see in the mirror, is you have to say what you really believe.

True prayer is an awareness of our helpless need and an acknowledgment of divine adequacy.

To accept reality is only to encourage it.

Where the apple reddens never pry - lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.

More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them.

I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms.