It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.

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.

Every soul that existed on earth is part of earth human history.

Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let our affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand...Simplify, simplify!

He who can does. He who can't teaches.

I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

One always likes to do the things for which one has ability.

I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Poetry is the memory of language

One cannot remember mother and forget God.