Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

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 are, none of us, pillars of strength. We use our moments of strength to carry us through our moments of weakness.

Reassuring thoughts have a funny way of getting stuck on repeat. Then you wake up one day and you can't remember where you put the last thirty years of your life.

It only takes luck to make the right choices in life”.

I am glad my life is coming to an end. To think that it might last another five hundred years, now that would be terrible, in my case.

All I have is me. Over-worked, under-appreciated, middle-aged, and shriveled up.

Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time.

But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart.

We are making tremendous progress that ISIS really does present to the homeland and to other homelands of allies around the world.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything.