Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.

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.

For most vampires, it's an automatic response - scent blood, fangs drop.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

Some people live more in 20 years than others do in 80. It's not the time that matters, it's the person.

Sleep, to the homeless thou art home; the friendless find in thee a friend

Labels applied to people of any race are inherently offensive.

There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.

When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.

Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.

Was I the best husband? No. And I regret it.

It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.