Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue. [Lat., Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.]

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.

Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.

We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.

Why should i go to his funeral? He ain't comming to mine.

Cheese that is required by law to append the word food to its title does not go well with red wine or fruit.

Takes a man or a woman to say I'm sorry, and it takes a fool to walk away.

I think I should understand that better, if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it.

In reality, psychiatric diagnosing is a kind of spiritual profiling that can destroy lives and frequently does.