Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

It is no good wishing for what was not to be.

I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.

Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.

After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.

I love a challenge and saving the Planet seems like a good one.

I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't do that on a computer.

The past shouts at you, the ugly words or actions echo down across the years.

I don't want my personal life to change. I don't understand why people strive for fame. I know it's ironic for me to be saying this, but this will be the last one I do.