To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.

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.

As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.

He who serves God with what costs him nothing will do very little service you may depend on it.

Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.

The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast program of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel.

I don't have principles. I have nerves.

though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

Honestly, I'm always aware of the political implications of the movies that I make.

Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.