Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite

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.

Every morning there are flowers of potentials. Your thoughts and interactions give them shape and reality.

How old you would become if you don't know how young you are.

The world is in A major...the earth revolves in A major, a low A.

That man would have chipped away at your heart bit by bit until there was nothing left. It may have been bruised, but at least it's whole.

Without mathematics, we are blind.

If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both.

The reason why there is more pessimism about technology in Europe has to do with history, the use of databases to keep track of people in the camps, ecological disasters.

The one thing that makes 'Torchwood' work so brilliantly and makes it a little bit above the rest of all other sci-fi dramas out there is that we have a sense of humour.

Music is always my great escape... I get to be that wild child and do whatever the hell I want on stage.

I'm a literalist. I believe what people say. When they say it, I think they mean it.