True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.

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.

Hip-hop is storytelling.

One of life’s greatest lessons is learning from our own mistakes.

I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.

Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.

Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.

Yasser Arafat remains in stable condition after dying in a Paris hospital.

How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.

I used to sit when I was a kid, from 14 or 15 on, with a book or a paper or a magazine in front of a mirror and teach myself to speak with a more straight mouth, so it wasn't so pronounced.

If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.