Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.

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.

The impulse to all movement and all form is given by [the golden ratio], since it is the proportion that summarizes in itself the additive and the geometric, or logarithmic, series.

I think in Europe, movies are made like a commodity and then sold as art.

I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators "the haute couture of language."

My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.

I got caught kissing. Like by my parents. It was so horrible. It's so embarrassing, I'm blushing.

The powers that be not only try to control events, but they try to control our memory and understanding of these events, which is part of controlling the events themselves.

The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer.

The biggest thing is getting our guys to understand, you can't let one mistake compound into another mistake

My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.