Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

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.

This day's nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.

One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.

The lens is a tyranny.

No matter how many pleasures Satan offers you, his ultimate intention is to ruin you. Your destruction is his highest priority.

She's so in love with me, she doesn't know anything. That's why she's in love with me.

Women are the carriers of life. We hold the fruit of our loving beneath our hearts.

The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.

I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.

Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves.

The thing I miss the most about Scotland is the football.