Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.

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.

Every morning you begin a new day, and it is the first day of the rest of your life.

Having unthoughtful thoughts for me is unthinkable, so much so that I cannot even think about that.

Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.

Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth, and there is nothing to be afraid of, even if the foundations of the earth be moved.

I would like to talk about some of the things that happened that made me know that there was something wrong in the south from a child.

People ask me how come you've been around so long. Well, it's through playing the part of Mr Average Joe American.

It was quite life-affirming, for me, that I felt hat kind of pity for [Margaret Thatcher], because I didn't think I ever would.

Good things take time, as they should. We shouldn't expect good things to happen overnight. Actually, getting something too easily or too soon can cheapen the outcome.

All of God's creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all.

It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.