Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand.

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.

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.

Life is supposed to be used in fulfilling our individual purposes of creation

To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.

I try to have all my characters have a sense of humor. To me the most interesting thing is a desperate character. I think desperation is funny.

Sometimes the newly Marked go into shock. The good news is, if this happens to you, you are unlikely to notice, because you will be in shock.

If I could play any superhero, I'd probably want to play Wonder Woman. She's pretty awesome.

There isn't a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear terrorist event.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

Tenderness and lust are just immature little brothers of love. Yes of course it was lust... but I'm not sure how evolved or resolved that lust was.

The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.