A dog Is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

Laughter is the fireworks of the soul.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

We have our own personal demons to deal with.

Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality.

It's up to the actor to make sure they don't get typecast.

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

A woman is subject matter enough.

For liberals, supposedly good intentions always trump results.

... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.

You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head.

I think that being a mother, you would do anything for your children. Their pain is your pain; if they're in pain, you feel their pain.

Passion is the model of all my actions.