Advice can be like cod liver oil, easy enough to administer but not so pleasant to take for anybody.

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.

Empty mind is the devil's workshop...and busy mind kills creativity...

I know my rightful place as a child of God

If I have a cause, it's the cause of the teacher.

The goal is not writing. The goal is being a human being writing.

The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.

I'm not old school, like, "Aw, man, I gotta do my music like I did in '98." I just go with the flow. I don't try to change anything.

Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

You are far less likely to soil your pants and cry for your mother if you’re prepared to defend yourself.

I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.

In Russia there are special people who are permitted to do anything. They are the sacrificial priests of power. Anyone who is not a member of this group has no clout with the state.