Rumor is like bees; the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.

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.

Love was not enough to fight or I was not worth to fight.

O, treacherous Death! You can't be forgiven for vanquishing my creator to the dust...

Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of wonder, beauty, or just plain delight.

I don't want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so influential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant memory.

Drugs are marvelous--it's life that's evil. And sometimes the only way to face it is to get completely twisted.

A healthy state encourages many voices - and lots of listening

Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment, you must also be right.

Nothing is meaningful except surrendering to love. Do it.

Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.