Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting things he has got.

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.

People are always asking about the good old days. I say why don't you say the good "now" days? Isn't "now" the only time you're living?

Plan ahead or find trouble on the doorstep.

The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.

If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.

In a place where there are no humans, one must strive to be human.

Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. [Lat., Licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, frequenter tamen causa virtutem est.]

Greatness is in not what you do but how you are an instrument in the hands of God.

I don't want to tell them what to take away from a movie, I think a movie should tell that.

[...] the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks.