I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

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.

Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.

Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful.

The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities.

I think stress is anything going on in our lives that impinges on our capacity to have optimum well being.

I'm really great in other peoples relationships.

It's still the classic thing to get nice lines, but knowing that your computer model, on your little machine, is on the screen, is priceless. And that doesn't happen too often I don't think.

Regulation needs to catch up with innovation.

Because I'm English, I try not to make any purely American references, because I want to limit how much I'm pretending to be American.

I paint because this is what I love to do. I have been painting since I was a kid and my dream was to become a well known professional artist

Generally, the more weight you put on, the less effective you are.