It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

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.

It’s amazing the damage we do to ourselves and others when all we’re trying to do is protect ourselves from being hurt.

A writing day is like any other day. Except I live in my pajamas, I forget to eat, and I suddenly look up, wondering when day turned into night.

The incompetent leading the unwilling to do the unnecessary.

Manipulators are very evolved. Energy is food. Forget good and bad. Is the coyote bad and the rabbit good?

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

I love the young people.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.

I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that.Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me

For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.

Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.