Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied.

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.

I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time......why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time, my greatest regret is how much I believed in the future.

Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.

If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves

...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind.

We can't stop trying til we break up our minds, til the sun drips blood on the seedy young knight.

Three life lessons: 1.No one will see you. 2.No one will say anything. 3.No one will save you.

I cannot function if there is a physical mess around me. If everything is falling apart, I go on a cleaning frenzy.

The Bible does not profess to make men omniscient, but simply to tell them enough to make them happy and good, if they will believe it and live up to it.

There's other ways to protect yourself and your family, Arlen. Wisdom. Prudence. Humility. It's not brave to fight a battle you can't win.