My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnest, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.

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.

Sometimes the end is only a beginning

Ignorance never yet helped anybody.

You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.

Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.

No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.

Flowers and pricker bushes grow out of the same dust.

To me, mathematics is like playing the violin. Some people can do it - others can't. If you don't have it, then there's no point in pretending.

Of all the jobs I've had, sliming fish was pretty good preparation for life in Washington.

I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.

I had an economic system imposed on me.