The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.

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.

Anything that comes easy comes wrong.

Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.

I have a great legacy, tarnished somewhat by the move.

I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were drawn in from the social sciences and humanities.

No matter what comes your way, don't lose your joy.

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.

You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.

The public, regardless of its social origin, likes, above all, that which is easily accessible.

The inner circle of pure mathematicians will respond to the book with delight.

Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy - but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears contemplating. Otherwise, they are palaces of misery.