When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.

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.

To achieve or goals we need persistence

A nation that is divided, need love to be united.

Knock. Pound on heaven’s door if you have to, but don’t give up. God hears all sincere prayers.

The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence.

Don't eat 'til you're full

There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned.(Anthony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare.)

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.

I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel.

In Dogtown, skateboards are like bikes to the Chinese.

When I got my job on Parks, it was so dreamy, kind of unfathomable. I didn't think a job that excellent could exist for me.