It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient one 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.

Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings –

Intercession is prayer we pray not for ourselves, but for others — for country government, or any other person

Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

My opinion of art is that a man should have love for it, because my idea is that he paints from his heart and mind.

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel.

Everything will be okay. I have a sticker on my laptop that says that.

Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas.

People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.