It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall but to lie there and grunt is.

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.

Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak.

I'm a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

Working memory capacity is really the ability to hold and manipulate information while you're actively trying to block out distraction.

Everybody talks and everybody listens, and somehow the truth just always comes up missin.

The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.

My parents weren't stereotypical and pressuring me to go to college. They mentioned it a lot and constantly, but it wasn't a do or die thing, like, 'You have to do this or you're done.

In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti.

I would love to record something with PJ Harvey or Alison Goldfrapp.

Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading.

Happiness, sadness, loss and gain all pass away. What they do to us is what remains.