The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.

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.

Only those who row the boat make waves

Audiences respond in entirely different ways. One thing is unanimous - music binds us altogether.

Healing is awakening to the perfection that already is ours.

There's no sense in doing a lot of barking if you don't really have anything to say.

Science is prediction, not explanation.

With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.

The Thames is liquid history.

I was a rotten kid. My excitement came from seeing what I could get away with.

A son of a poor man is standing in front of you today. This is the strength of a democracy.

I don't know if any genuine meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a gorilla.